Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.

When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

These were people who hunted for a way to erase the haunted, malnourished gaze from their souls and replace it with their faith in freedom and safety.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

People around the world just want self-respect. They want to take care of themselves, they want to pay for their own bills, they want to take care of their families.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.