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

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.

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 pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.

One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!

Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness.In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed.Spring flowers, winter snows.There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.