Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Tears can ruin the handiwork of the best beautician.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.