I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

I never look back, I look forward.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

You can't measure success if you have never failed.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

I don't ever look back. I look forward.

O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.