People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

I always find that what's unique to my clinics is the credentials I bring to the table

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

Depressions aren't good but the depression mentality is good.

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.