...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Discover your gift if you don’t want to live the life of an ordinary person

The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

I am really, really tired.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

Come back with your shield - or on it