The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

It's important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day - as that is what separates the good from the great.

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.

The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.

As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

There is no difference between our methods and those of anybody bu else-the only difference is that our motivation and dedication he is much greater.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

He who gives early gives twice.