Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!

You don't have to be big to be great.

Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating.

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Acceptance is the key to finding where my truth lies in the darkness.

Give yourself permission to enjoy this present moment. Resist the urge to fill it with I need to's, I shoulds, I coulds. Trying to fill all your present moments is impeding the natural flow of life.

But there are times to talk to the dead, times when the dead want to talk.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

I got a nice jumper on me, and i'm not just bragging.

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.

How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.