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

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.

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.

When we will learn to be nonjudgmental with ourselves and to others this world will see the peace forever.

Life is a spiritual breath.

It is raining at the top of my roof and I'am inside my blanket in this chilling night with an open window, missing my love and listning the rain singing a lullaby to me.

Hunter and hunted. There are so many ways in which a man can destroy a woman.” Her handmaid sighed. “When it comes to matters of the heart, immortals know nothing.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.

Your Majesty— Tugging my ear. Whenever.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

Making a mistake is also an achievement.