I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, 'patience' and 'restraint.'

Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

The world is run by the people who show up.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.