As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.