"Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush."

"You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be."

"But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good."

"Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so."

"A heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 38 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 16."

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"