Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

Miracles are simply a change in perception.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.