I'm almost a full-time mom.

So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.

I love that I have a job that I love.

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

She (Daria) has Sergei's wide and ready smile, so beautiful to me.

Family is always the most important part.

The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.

I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.