After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

When all you have is the darkness of hate, kindness is a beacon that burns bright.

Life is so much friendlier with two.

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.