So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

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.

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.

Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.