Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the Christian church. The methods of control, wherever we find them, fall under three general heads which might be described as (a) the invention, (b) the destruction, and (c) the alteration of documents.