It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

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.

Life is more than survival

Pirates of Bollywood, or Bollywood of Pirates? - Tough to say.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.