From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Francois Rabelais

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

Maria Sharapova

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Madame Swetchine

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Stephen King

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Virginia Woolf

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

Robert Burdette

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Benjamin Disraeli

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles