Dissents speak to a future age.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

My values about learning changed. I realized that information changes situations.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.