For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

All the physical comes from the mental.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

The struggle I went through has value.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

Dreams are pathways for the heart. - Reminim the gnome

- I saw the Center of the Universe, she said. - I'm looking at it right now, he said.

Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.