I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.

If I would go out against some of these players and see them as their ranking, then I probably would have already lost before I even stepped on the court.

This tennis world, this tennis community, is very much a bubble, and it's very easy to get lost in here. You know, there is a real world out there still.

Every opponent is a new opponent. Trust me, they don't give a crap how many matches I have won.

I'm not invincible. I'm no Serena Williams.

I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

You know all my needs and wants, you know hundreds of small things about me! You also know I am madly falling in love with you, You even know when I am staring at you! You know how much I desire you!

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.

The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.

There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.