A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

When you are through learning you are through.

I think I was a born scientist.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.