Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

Determine when you are most productive when working away from the office, and maximize those periods.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him.

Life is too short to blend in.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.