Doing your best is more important than being the best.

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.

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.

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

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.

objectivity is subjective

When you come to know God personally and He becomes your close Friend, you will live an easy and fulfilled life.

Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?

The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

My mantra is "Better is better".

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.

I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.