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

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.

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.

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.

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.