The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.

I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

God is life. Life is divine.

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society.

Half the lies I tell are not true. To tell you the truth, half the true tales I tell are lies.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

I hate travelling and explorers

Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.