Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records.

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

If I wasn't my age, I would turn a flip. I would do some cartwheels. That's how I feel.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.