People put too much emphasis on looks.

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.

Enlightenment is the key to empowerment.

If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.