I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Hope is being confident of what we do not seen.

He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."- Frank Balenger

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.