People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.

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.

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...

Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.