There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

She leaves a tiny part of her heart everywhere she travels and memories from the place fill up the void in her heart and soul.

In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you want the story to end? How do you want to be remembered when you are gone?

Don't judge people by what others tell you

People don´t need a job, they need a vision.

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

I always wanted to play against the best.

There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.