My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

In the light, we find the light of life.

Tweet and post softly of your brand. But carry a big stick.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.

I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.

I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.