And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.