I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

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.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I love software and I love technology.

Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.

It is our duty to save the world. That is our mission, insofar as they will listen unto us and receive our testimony.

Flying is the best possible thing for women.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.