It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

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.

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.

Gymnastics is a lot like life. You don't become an Elite gymnast by bickering and having a negative attitude. You have to be positive to get to that level.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

When the only exorcise you get is running for a bus, get more buses!

Biology - DNA - is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

The question for me is whether we can keep Earth a safe, pleasant place for humankind and the ecosystems we rely on.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.