My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces And Feelings To Improve Communication And Emotional Life.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.