I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Tracy K. Smith

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

Leo Tolstoy

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Joan Didion

I got a book for my birthday How to make it big I had to take it back.

Rodney Dangerfield

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

David Frum

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

Hillary Clinton

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Marian Wright Edelman

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Spiro T. Agnew

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

Henning Mankell

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Wylie

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Susan Sontag

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Tony Alesandra