Always wear a smile because you never know who is watching.

I always start my breakfast out with oatmeal, because it's full of vitamin D, it's a great carb, and you can get, like, some fun flavors in there.

I always wear my evil eye necklace to ward off bad karma. I always wear one to protect me.

When it comes down to competition, its not always about the best skater, its about who skates the best in that competition.

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

Many people will fight you, not because you are wrong, but because you are different.

People in pain can be very self-destructive. And sometimes they pull in the people who are close to them, often without realizing.

True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

I am deaf to the word 'no'.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.