If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

Kate Walsh

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Fernando Pessoa

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome

John F. Kennedy

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

Sarah Dessen

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.

Neil L. Andersen

People who think by the inch and talk by the yard deserve to be kicked by the foot.

Anon.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Josefa Iloilo

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Samuel Butler

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson