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“Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we come back to a place of self-love and understand the journey more - that we have come here just to have a series of experiences to learn from and that we need not do it all perfectly.”
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“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.”
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“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”
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“Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.”
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“For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.”
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“A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.”
Source : Louis Nizer (1978). “Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind”, Doubleday Books
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“All isn't well with the world.”
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“The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.”
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“When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.”
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“Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.”
Source : "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com. 
