So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly backward in this country.

I just want people to understand that regardless of what it is that you do - whether you're a teacher, whether you are a doctor, a single mother, a college student, a big sister - that you have strength within you, and I want people to be inspired to walk in their own superhero regardless of what it is that they do.