If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.

I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to.

Thank you guys for believing in my ability and supporting me in my Olympic journey.

It feels amazing to inspire little kids to want to do gymnastics and have fun with it.

To me, I go out there, and I do what I trained. We prepare so long for that moment, so it's just kind of exciting.

Everything I do is in the gym so I'm always in gym clothes.

Sometimes I think of that and I'm like, "Simone, I don't know what else you can do. What more can you do? Maybe you can repeat yourself." I'll take time off, get out more, go outside more, vacation.

I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.

I'm only 19. It's kinda crazy if you're older and putting expectations on a poor 19-year-old.

I'm excited to explore lifestyle clothes for a little bit. I don't necessarily have favorite brands.

[People saying to me] "You look taller on TV." I get that all the time.

Turn your loneliness into singing and praying, and you shall realize that you are never alone at all

She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.