I fell in love with gymnastics. I love what I do now. I work with people that I love to be around. Success comes from that.

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 have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christmas miracle.

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.

Asleep in lap of legends old.

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.