Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The heart is a place of secrets.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.