I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most of my meals while watching Netflix. It's like my companion.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

We allow the sonic qualities themselves to develop their own momentum. It's a kind of humbling experience to put the sound first instead of the statement.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.