If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you, " said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.

A sensitive woman is the greatest gift to a passionate man.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection, " may be spelled PARALYSIS.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go.

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.