I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces.

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.

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

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

Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

Woolsey bites on occasion

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

I don't really think, I just walk.

Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.