The struggle I went through has value.

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

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.

The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine.

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.