I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

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.

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'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.

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.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

I touched him. From brain to body, in ways I couldn’t quite understand. But he did and for him, that was all that mattered.

To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide

Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.

To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.