There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I'm always looking for inspiring ways to stay motivated and stay active.

Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.

I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al

They're great kids, great young people, and they fight like hell.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.