I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

Everything is in place to have a peaceful Games.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

There are moments that aren't great. And I think it's amazing for people to be able to have some insight, to be able to see the support system and what really happens.

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.