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.

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

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.

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.

We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.

Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition.

Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.