"I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection."

“Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.”

“If your fear is talking to people, then go out and talk to people. You will find it just keeps getting easier and there's really nothing to be afraid of. However, I can tell you that if I stop for a month, it starts to seem scary again. So, the easiest way to fend off fear is to attack it, embrace it.”

“Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”

“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”

“Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government.”

Source : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.167, Anchor

“There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.”

“I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.”

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