So I step into the future, as bravely as I'm able, with my heart longing for a time I'll never see again.

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow.

I love that I have a job that I love.

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

I'm almost a full-time mom.

She (Daria) has Sergei's wide and ready smile, so beautiful to me.

Family is always the most important part.

Being happyis not a privilege—it is somethingeveryone deserves.

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I believe in the power of music. I believe in it absolutely. It's never failed me. Never.

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.