It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

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.

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity.

Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here then you have not lived in vain.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect simply a confession of failures.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

Sadness flowers to the next renewing joy.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.

Theres nothing else I would rather do unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It's more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.