"I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did."

“It doesn't eat meat." I said. "It's a herbivore. It's like a big cow." Denna looked at me and started to laugh. Not hysterical laughter, but the helpless laughter of someone who's just heard something so funny they can't help but bubble over with it. She put her hands over her mouth and shook with it, the only sound was a low huffing that escaped through her fingers. There was another flash of blue fire from below. Denna froze midlaugh, then took her hands away from her mouth. She looked at me, her eyes wide, and spoke softly with a slight quaver in her voice, "Mooooo.”

“When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.”

“The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.”

“Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.”

“Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it.”

Source : Jill Briscoe (2009). “Spiritual Arts: Mastering the Disciplines for a Rich Spiritual Life”, p.32, Zondervan

“Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.”

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”

Source : Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

“If something is inevitable, it will happen”