Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

If we weren’t already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?

Every challenge presents a good chance for learning something new.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.