"Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin."

“I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.”

Source : "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.

“What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?”

“Many confuse understanding with believing.”

“I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not against negotiating with Putin, but I would say tougher and more skeptical. And Donald Trump has talked about revisiting policy towards Ukraine, revisiting policy about sanctions towards Russia, not as quick to criticize Putin for what he might be up to in Syria and propping up the regime there - so just seems to be more open to the possibilities of working out some kind of a - I guess you'd call a modus vivendi with Putin.”

Source : "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

“It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.”

“Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest”

“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”

“I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.”