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

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.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

For consumers to benefit from technology, there has to be fair and open competition. Fair and open competition is the only course we know that can lead to meaningful innovation.

I love serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I have especially enjoyed my time on the Ways and Means Committee.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.

Observational studies show that exercise, nutritional supplements and reducing psychological stress can help. Chronic high stress and smoking can lead to accelerated telomere shortening.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

Virtual Piggy was created to provide a safe way for kids to shop online with parental approval, in recognition of growing digital world kids live in.

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

Health and disease are the same thingvital action intended to preserve maintain and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Don't wait for the right opportunity, create it.

It's hard to watch people change, but it's even harder to remember who they used to be.

A good cover has a distinct silhouette.