I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

This chance will stand before you only once.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.