I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

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.

No matter how worldly I became, there was always that one part of me that never forgot where I came from and how simple life was there.

Life is a game. We must keep playing the game. The more we play, the more we will understand the game of life.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ

I usually never walk by a microphone.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.