Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

I just fought with all my heart. I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.

When we cannot see, we don't judge. Small wonder when we kiss, cry, laugh, make love, are in pain, pray and listen to music, we close our eyes.

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper.

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.

You can face fear, or feel it, her dad used to say. … Feel it, and it eats you alive. Face it, and you get to kick some ugly alien butt. Okay, he never said that. I wonder if they even have butts.

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

Hurry, your imaginary heaven is calling you up, my dear holier-than-thou religious nuts.

You can't make everybody happy.

Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.

Global challenges require collective responses.

Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.