Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

When you're good at something, make that everything

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

Being in an empty mind increases my intuition, my sense of energy.

When I look at my longterm goals for the rest of my life, there are so many things other than performing that make me happy.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island.