"At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else."

"I think of myself as still being about five."

"Sometimes I think you'll be fine by yourself Cause a dream is a wish you make all alone; It's easy to feel like you don't need help, But it's harder to walk on your own..."

"And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you."

"I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it."

"Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think."

"I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care."

"If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve."

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."

"Think Positive."

"Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet."

"It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter."

"I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'"

"It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever."

"A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on."

"The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment."

"Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game."

"I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual."

"I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society."

"I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable."

"For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all."

"Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do."

"I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person."

"I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine."