I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.

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.

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 had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

So you’re a reader, ” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

Kiss me with love like a butterfly kisses flowers to find and taste the nectar of life.

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

Most human problems can be solved by an appropriate charge of high explosive.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them.