“I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.”

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.

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.

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda

The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.

The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

When you learn to belong to yourself, everywhere you go will feel like home.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

If you are facing trouble right now, don’t ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what’s right.