"I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament."

"I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through."

"As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay."

"For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces."

"Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote."

"We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be."

"I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them."

"If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better."