I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.

I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Listen to the inner voice that allows you to be you!

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.