I never felt sidelined, I was supported by my friends, my family and my team. I always knew I could do it. I had confidence in myself.

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.

No one is going to put their life on hold and do it for you – they are too busy frantically peddling their own lives along to stop and give you a hand.

I've often had to stand on the firm ground of my convictions when others thought I ought to be doing differently.

All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness.

I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.