I think skating helped me find myself.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I think skating helped me find myself.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

I guess my favourite Disney film was 'Snow White,' which has a really dark moment when the evil queen turns into a witch and makes the poison apple. It was terrifying in the same way 'Maleficent' is.

I am proud of the fact the community elected a congressman who was born and raised in the community. I am trying my best to be successful for the community.

Tis a gross error held in schools That Fortune always favours fools.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

I don't eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.

I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesnt validate your worth.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I always wanted to become a football player, and I thank my parents, as they helped me so much to realise this dream. They always supported me on my path.

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

I rarely believe anything because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.