I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

I thought I’d saved Kayden that night at the pool house, but I was wrong. I just bought him time until the next windstorm swept through.

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.