Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

I find folding laundry very relaxing.

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

From that altitude, the world looked calm and vivid and possible. But by the time we landed at Prestwick the clouds were down like the black cap on a hanging judge.

Before the Apocalypse, the closest I'd gotten to death was buying steaks at the supermarket.

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

Short sellers age in dog years.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.