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.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Henry David Thoreau

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Michael K. Powell

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

John Greenleaf Whittier

You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Chris Daughtry

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

St. Bernard

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Ziglar

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Mitch Albom

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Ibn Gabirol

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

Emily James Putnam

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

Donald Trump