Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Life is not a puzzle to solve. Stop, Enjoy the Journey!-RVM

Fear nothing

One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.

There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.