Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

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.

What better place to kill time than a library?

Some people react to suffering by denying the very possibility of God's existence

When you have true love in your heart, You will never be depressed or fall apart.

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

I want what you want. Whenever you want it.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.