Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort， the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

The poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

"Writing is a way of discovering what you didn’t know you knew."

I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.