I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

I find folding laundry very relaxing.

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.

I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.

Parents must teach their children the fear of God.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

Try to be a filter, not a sponge.