I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

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.

Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.

God does not take sides. He is always on the side of the winner

I am constantly searching for places that rekindle my sense of wonder.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.