I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.
If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.
What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
To most. . . of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it came to really new ideas or inventions. A common joke of the time [mid 1940s] said that the Russians could not surreptitiously introduce nuclear bombs in suitcases into the United States because they had not yet been able to perfect a suitcase.