As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.

The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

With our thoughts we make the world.

You never cease to be unique.

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.

Ignorance is worse than authorization.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.