"The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile."

“Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 19, 2018

“When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.”

“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.”

“The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

“I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.”

“The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan

“We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.”

“There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.”