I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

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.

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.