The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Hope makes the impossible possible.

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.