It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.

Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.

First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!

If you don't see something beautiful, change your viewpoint.

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Those who love most, see most.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.