Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Bryan Cranston

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Susan Orlean

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.

Neil Gaiman

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

Mariska Hargitay

The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

David Rockefeller

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

Jef I. Richards

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Andrei Sakharov