In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

I'm proud of myself. I'm a relieved, happy girl.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

We get criticized for showing no personality, and then we get penalized when we do.

I think I'm pretty down to earth.

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.

It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

I don't think bonuses are always bad.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.