Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

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.

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

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.

Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions." Discard 2

When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

I learned that strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.