I like to mix up my workouts to keep them fun and interesting. It makes getting to the gym a lot easier!

I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

I'm a typical college girl; I love to shop and gossip with my roommates about boys and whatnot.

I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.

Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.

I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

The goals you don't set reveal the dreams you don't do.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

I'll beat you up right now if you want me to.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.