I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

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.

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.

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

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.

At some point you have to stop crossing oceans for those who wouldn't jump puddles for you.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation

Create your own constituency of the infuriated.