Don't force anything. Find what you love and stick with it.

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.

The difference between ideas and resources is that resources has its limits.

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.

When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.

Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend

The budding rose above the rose full blown.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.