I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.

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.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?""Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.

...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.

Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.