Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

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.

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

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.

Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

There's a spark in you you've just gotta ignite the light and let it SHINE.

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself.

My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.