I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

All the physical comes from the mental.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

The struggle I went through has value.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

Have you sipped your poems today?

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.