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

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

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.

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.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

I've been craving peanut butter-and-mayonnaise fried cheese sandwiches.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

I'm not locked into playing one guy.

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.