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

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.

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.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.

Love is a prison of life where we always like to get in and never want to get out.

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

But monument themselves memorials need.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity