Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

Love is enough.

The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

There is always room for at least two truths.

Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?