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

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.

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.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Not your parabatai any longer.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.