Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

When you're good at something, make that everything

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.