I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

No competition, no progress.

I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.

The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.

She is a smile in the dark

I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

After doing STAR TREK for so many years, to do just regular makeup is such a treat. Just put some makeup on and "thank you very much," you're on your way.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.