The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.

The only instance where five purely-negative words have had a highly positive, motivational impact, are Winston Churchill's "Never, Never, Never, Never Give-Up".

The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow. So we had a couple glasses of wine and wrote it.

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.