I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

A book can open the mind, free the heart, and speak to the soul.

Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.