I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.

Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

No one can steal my peace of mind without my consent.

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.