Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.

Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.

All is fair in fashion and war.

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

Who are you if nobody knows your story?

Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.

Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

Records and achievements are made to be broken.