I feel life I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

I was an emotional basket case.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.

IF you don't change, you can become extinct!

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.