Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

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.

New life, new hopes.

I am getting by doing just the bare minimum and it takes up so many hours of my waking day.

I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well