When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

A family is not decided by blood but by bonds.

Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you.

There are parts [in Dodd-Frank] that I don't agree with. But, in total, it is what it is.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.