There's no denial that one's gender orientation is certainly a core characteristic of any person, but it's not the only one.
The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.
I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that --- even for just a moment --- I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears.
A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.
When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.
I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.
We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.
We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.
Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.