The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

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.

So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith.

Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.

Grass is food for elephants, but a cushion for lions.

Flowers are always more serious than they appear.

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

I caught a pebble in the moonlight.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

America is a land of creators and rebels.

If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.