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.

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.

I don't have any regrets.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have