Well-I don't know if anyone would really ask me to prom.

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 have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

I sang in choir as a kid.