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.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.

We need to consciously remember that we have more responsibility to protect our planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live.

Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

A lot of airlines have come and gone.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.