Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

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.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.

The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?

A great man is one sentence.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

Do something everyday that scares you.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.

It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks, but they often can't afford to.

Let me ask you, do you love your freedom that you have here in America? Well, so do I.