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 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.

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.

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

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.

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Darkness within clouds the world without.

when you is precious to God, you is important to Satan. Watch your backside, somethin’ is gettin’ ready to happen

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.

For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.

Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

All I care about is that people remember me as a good skater, as someone who was innovative.