I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

You always learn from your mistakes.

If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.