"I don't need a good skate to make everything OK."

“I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”

“If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.”

“The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.”

“These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.”

Source : "Kim Clijsters: 'Me and Dad had this thing about the number one'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2012.

“In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.”

“When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'”

“The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.”

“My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.”