Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what."

Success is not a summit to climb, It is an equilibrium where work and life are balanced

The perfect scenario is when you are living your dream, when you have found your gift and when you are working to bring it to perfection

As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.

It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.

[If] I'm talking about something, that doesn't mean I'm necessarily doing it.

Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.