I give myself a cheat day where I annihilate my diet. I'm an all-American girl, so I go for a burger and fries and a shake.

I love hanging out with friends and family.

I havent mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

I love to win, honestly. ... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

When Im competing, I need to be strong.

I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful

Skaters are infamously superstitious.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

Adding an Olympic medal to everything that I have already accomplished would be so huge for me.

My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.

A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.

The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization was only a blink on the radar of time.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!

I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.