You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

Reach out to your sacred-dreams.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?