“I just try to do the good job that I have to the best of my ability and I really don’t think about whether I’m inspirational. I just do the best I can.”

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.

Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

An operatic voice is like no other.

As women achieve power, the barriers will fall.

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.

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva.

It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.

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

It’s great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

Don’t be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

I always knew I had something special.

Every girl is beautiful if they have the ability to believe in themselves.