Being with someone I love and care about to feed off positive energy is crucial.

Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it.

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.

Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

A smile is a language of love which everyone can understand.

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.