Billie Jean King

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

I’m a product of pop culture.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.