In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.

In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perhaps the most important things.

I'm distressed to hear you think that judges or the Supreme Court is an organ of a party. That, to me, is just - I know you feel that way. And that distresses me.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.

Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

God grants an easy death only to the just.