I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

In the center of your being there is a fountain of music and that is your love.

Because, " she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation.

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.