It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.

I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.

I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.

Knowing your coach has confidence in you is big for a young player.

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it.

You appreciate or criticize people or things you care for, which are closed to your heart. Else who has time to think about devils!!!

Snatching my hand in the death grip of his fingers, he pulls me off the wall to line his chest, closing his body around me in a muscular cage which smells of leather and soap.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

We are called upon to become creators, to make the world new.

The joy of dressing is an art.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances.

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.