I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.

I love that I have a job that I love.

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

She (Daria) has Sergei's wide and ready smile, so beautiful to me.

Family is always the most important part.

The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.

If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.