Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

One mistake is all they see.

Well I beat things around with my stick once in awhile.

When you feel that he doesn't value you anymore, this would be the right time to let him go.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

I know there are certain things that I just can't win.

Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being