"You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be."

“I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.”

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”

“There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.”

“There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.”

Source : "Sen. Dianne Feinstein talks national security; Sen. John Thune on Romney veepstakes". "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. May 13, 2012.

“Some people need God and some people need science.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

“Evolution shows that in the long run, if the superior mixes with the inferior, the product is halfway between, and inferior to what you started with in the original superior group - in other words, mongrelized.”

Source : Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

“Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.”

“Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.41, University of Missouri Press