Quotes by Lester Holt

Ill co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evenings graduation ceremony. Im still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.

Im a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least.

What Ive come to know is that in life, its not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself. Thats kind of what I did.

Theres no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking youre invincible in order to do that.

When we run out of them upstairs, Ive been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of Eat this, Not That! fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the not that category. I made a note of it.