My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

I think, I just always carry this kind of happy sense of being able to come into any situation and know that I don't exactly fit in, but I can make a place for myself.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

I know my rightful place as a child of God

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.