I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.

Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.

I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.

Because we don't really sparkle.

Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him.

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.