She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

I was an emotional basket case.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.

I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress