I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.