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

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.

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.

I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.