Nicolas Chamfort

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.