I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!

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.

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

We got a lot of energy. She certainly doesn't look presidential to me, Hillary [Clinton]. I don't think you get to look less presidential actually than Hillary.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.