Gymnastics is so complex.

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.

We refused to be what world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

Is it wrong to protect your heart?”- Marc (Marked Book #1) page 130

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

I want in all cases to do right.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

Scars are the price which every believer pays for his loyalty to Christ.