We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

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

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

Big obstacles shrink when you confront them

One must always forgive another's passion.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

[He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.