I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.
Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
The essential thing is not to have conquered, but to have fought well.
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed right. 'Love is composed of a single soul, inhabiting two bodies. '" He took her by the shoulders drawing her close. "It rang true for me, in a way nothing else did. Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if. . . every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.
The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.