There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.

View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

I can't determine the order of events. But I can trust God to guide my footsteps.

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

I think all priests should be married.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.