It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not.

Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.