I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

I'm sick of making bloody history.

I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

You've got to be realistic.

In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

From the age of five, I was organizing everybody's everything. If I didn't like the way it looked, I'd rearrange it. From a very early age, I saw life from my point of view.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century not a divine command.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Everybody's got cable.

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range they tend to do one thing and do it very well but its limited.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

I think the Olympics could help us reach more people.

Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

History is written by the victors.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

Congress did the right thing with Ebola. They funded us to protect Americans and keep us safer.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

My career's had a lot of ups and downs. Once I started playing with John Peers in 2013, that gave me a huge lift, a lot of direction, which I needed.

There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.