The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
→I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.
→My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.
→I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
→Courage is action, not talk.
→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 went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
→Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
→My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
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