Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what."

What's with that?” Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. “Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.

I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

I never believed that one big bill is the way to go.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.