What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

Time and tide wait for no man.

Chaucer

Spend not on hopes.

George Herbert

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

Anthony Kiedis

''Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Sh

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Edward de Bono

American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Hubert Humphrey

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

Ruth Benedict

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Gertrude Stein

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Robert Fitzgerald

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

George Fox