I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

It's just simple: just keep fighting and keep believing, try not to show weakness out there.

I won't be turning into Novak anytime soon.

You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone who doesn't believe in equality for women.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

What I would like, I think, is to live a while longer. But not again.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.