I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, and both are smarter than Congress.

The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!