I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

Work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

God bless you butterfly, because now I'm claiming you like no mate has ever been claimed in the history of our kind

1. Feed off you. 2. Replenish you. 3. Repeat.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

Every dream has a process and a price tag. Those who embrace the process and pay the price, live the dream. Those who don't, just dream.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.