The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says."Yes, Planet Bach, " I respond.He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.

Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after it closed.

I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.