My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.

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.

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

The world's problems make us think about who we are and where we stand, and how we measure up.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.