Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.