But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

Why would anyone want perfection when growth comes from flaws?

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.

A clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Defeat is always momentary.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.