If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

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.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

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.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.

The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

I think Black Eyed Peas are kind of unique in the ways they produce their songs. Their songs are very current.

By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.

Follow your passion. Magic has no formula.

Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this is how your trust grows in the Lord whom you have chosen to follow.