You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.

As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.

Losing one feather does not prevent a bird from flying.

It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.