When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

I can't say, 'It doesn't matter if you win or lose.' It's not true. You go in to win.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Kentucky Gag Order is a great band, there's stuff here and there that you catch that is cool.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Peace and love are eternal.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

But (Peresphone) was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.