The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

All the physical comes from the mental.

The struggle I went through has value.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

It is proved that those who have plans but do not record them, lose to those who have written plans

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.