So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.

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.

You have to accept the situation to be able to change it.

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

Your highest female grace is silence.

What is the son but an extension of the father?

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

I think she always nursed a small mad hope.