Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

Malcolm Turnbull

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Jack Youngblood

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

William James

Value added is a meaningless concept for a retail business, for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

Peter Drucker

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Sir Isaac Newton

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Oscar Wilde

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

Diablo Cody

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

Cassandra Clare

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt