Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

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.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.

Money is the only thing you can use even if you don't have any. ... There's always a credit card.

In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.