I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

It's important not to look like a tool in front of your posse.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC.

Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery.

You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today?

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.