I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

All the physical comes from the mental.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

The struggle I went through has value.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.

The act of prayer present an opportunity to communicate and connect to the Supreme being, God.

Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.

Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.