It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

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.

...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.

I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.

We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.