I don't have to follow any special diet or count calories. I try to eat healthily and before a match I load up on pasta and salads. But I pretty much do what I want.

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.

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.