"Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves."

“In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.”

Source : "Sam Stosur: Serena is intimidating even when on her best behaviour" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2011.

“There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion would hardly surprise anyone. I think there's evidence to suggest that it's even narrower - the great majority of friends of Ivy Leaguers, for instance, are Ivy Leaguers. This narrows the pool of people who can write fiction cutting across class boundaries that's informed by their own personal experience.”

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

“Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.”

Source : Anita Brookner (1986). “The Misalliance”, Pantheon

“We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.”

Source : "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

“I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.”

“I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“People need service - great service where music is concerned.”

Source : "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.