“Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us ...” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

“Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.”

“If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.”

“As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.”

“As a gymnast, I've always compartmentalized my life, which is a blessing and a curse. But over time, I've learned that my sport doesn't fully define me, and I think that's where a lot of the joy in my routines comes from now: I'm not compartmentalizing as much, and I know who I am beyond my sport.”