Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level ofthinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

We need the poor as much as they need us.

I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.