You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.