A stealthy ninja monkey she was not.

I figured I only had about two seconds to live. It’s amazing how many thoughts you can have in two seconds.

I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.

I shrieked like a little girl, which, if you think about it, makes total sense.

This was a true pants-pooping moment.

She looked mean, but I think that was her natural resting face.

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was a very unsettling thought. What if I was really dumb and didn't know it?

Do not go where you don’t belong. I scoffed. That sounded like an invitation if I ever heard one.

That was when things got weird. You may have thought things were weird already, but this was uber-weird

I saw leaving any situation where I was treated with disrespect as evidence of my courage. I wanted my daughters to learn that lesson of worth from me.

Never Take Life For Granted.

WHEN YOU FEAR IS BECAUSE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

The world is changing and so is fashion.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.