For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Just when she thought she had it all figured out something happened to test her faith or alter her view of reality.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me.

I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.