I always push forward. It doesn't mean that I'll be perfect. I make mistakes -- but I learn from my mistakes, and move on.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.

Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

You always learn from your mistakes.

I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

You need more than your own wisdom in rearing [your children]. You need the help of the Lord. Pray for that help and follow the inspiration which you receive.

I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon