I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

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.

Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs

Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.

It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.

We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses.

Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.

I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good.

Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

After all, I want to make sure I stick with his original vision. So far, [Steven King] comments have always been the same - run with it!

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.