"Gymnastics taught me everything – life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect." ― Shawn Johnson Topic(s): Respect More From Shawn Johnson "I’m trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy." "I have a chaperone everywhere I go – my mom." "We’re taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you’re never perfect and that you’re never good enough." More In Respect "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."― Malcolm Forbes "Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can’t say, ‘Let’s just go back to where we were pre-9/11."― Al-Waleed bin Talal "We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we’re proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn."― Charles Vest