I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

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.

I don't spill my drinks on just any man, you know." She touched his cheek. "only dashing shark lovers with pantydropping accents.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself