Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

I was an emotional basket case.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

I feel like Ive started a new chapter in my life and I need to leave the past behind.

We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?

Grandchildren dont stay young forever which is good because Pop pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.

I don't have regrets. In any sport, the feeling of regret is a sign of indiscipline. London has passed, basically London is over.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas news and information look the same. We cannot differentiate we cannot prioritize and we cannot make good choices.

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

If you think, 'I'm jumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet!' you're not going to do it. But if you just jump out, then you'll have an interesting ride.

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.