"Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has been for some years now. Sales haven't ever stopped, so to talk about rediscovering him would suggest that he isn't read anymore and that's not true."

“Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.”

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

Source : "Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming" by George Dantzig, Mathematical programming: the state of the art, p. 78-86, 1983.

“Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?”

“Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.”

“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.”

“Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.”

Source : James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.2, American Enterprise Institute

“I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.”

“A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.”