I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Doors of my heart are always open with love and kindness.

Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.