My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

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.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.