My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they’re trying to be a woman in a man’s game.

We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.

Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

I like this idea of identification with the local team. I think it's great. That's what an orchestra should be. It's an orchestra for its hometown, and it serves the people.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.