“I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.”
“Life is too uncertain... You must seize happiness where you find it.”
Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000. 
“I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.”
Adam Smith
Philosopher
Baron de Montesquieu
Author
Denis Diderot
Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Educator
John Locke
Philosopher
Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher
Voltaire
Writer
