The French cook we open tins.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.