It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

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 world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

Work harder to become better person. There is no guarantee how long we are going to be here. Enjoy life.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet.