You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

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.

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.