If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail
The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
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.
The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
If we must die, O let us nobly die.
New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. . . . The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.