"One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvement in the Resistance. He took part, there, in the combat against Nazism."

“Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are”

“People don't need to be paid to be motivated.”

Source : Jonah Berger (2016). “Contagious: Why Things Catch On”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

“A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution”

“I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.”

“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”

Source : "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

“The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.”

“Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.”

“Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.”