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.

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."

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.

In that silence, I dream to be.

If Christians insist only on condemning what they don't like, they will cut themselves off from that shared cultural life.

I miss a good cup of tea, dancing, boys- definitely not rain.""We dance, " Diana protested.Maeve had just laughed. "You dance differently when you know you won't live forever.

Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.