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“I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.”
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“Life has no beginning, middle or end.”
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“I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.”
Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000. 
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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
Source : "'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?')". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.
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“I get enough of that on the news, so I didn't want to deal with fundamentalists or any sort of thing like that. I just wanted to keep it as lighthearted as the Cold War was, which obviously it was a fun time for everybody.”
Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
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“The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.”
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“Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.”
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“AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.”
