I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.

Steve Maraboli

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Leo Tolstoy

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Victor Hugo

I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Kurt Vonnegut

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Aristotle

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell