I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

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.

He's not really my man, " I protested. One fuzzy white eyebrow rose over the lens of his glasses. "You were certainly ogling him as if he was.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.

Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.