I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.

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 heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

God is just a statistics.