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.

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.

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

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

The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination - the subject.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.