Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Dreams are the only way to change reality.

Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."