I dont want to repeat my mistakes.

Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

Being with someone I love and care about to feed off positive energy is crucial.

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.

Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.