I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

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.

If you continuously plant the right seeds in your mind, a life of abundance would become highly inevitable in your life.

always see the goodness in others for it will sent you to righteousness, .. Amen

Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure cancer.

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.