Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Let us not become so busy making a living that we forget to enjoy our Life. Every day of Life is meant to be Lived and Enjoyed.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance

Some relationships are just a mere illusion!

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

If You find yourself in a hole

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.