I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

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.

If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace.

Be individual, break free from the flock to avoid the predictable midsummer haircut.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Your wit makes others witty.

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.