I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Never be the cause of someone's misery

A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Think thoughts that make you feel good, make choices that make you feel good, and take actions that make you feel good.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

Your body produces a lot less testosterone each and every single year no matter who you are. We are all human, nobody is super human.

This Game is not over, it is just beginning.