If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog, all of the time.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

And how do you know that you're mad?

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Through lovingly embracing the full range of our experience- human and divine- we can heal the split that existed between the spirit and the form, in ourselves individually and in the whole world.