The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking partöjust as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

-Coubertin, Pierre de, Baron
  Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24  Jul.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard in conquering her to allowanyone to take her from me, or even to covet her.

-Napoleon I
The Journal of Roederer.