“You can’t have it all, all at once.”

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Yet, as the numbers reveal, women in law, even today, are not entering a bias-free profession.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

Our mutual respect is only momentarily touched by our sometimes strong disagreements on what the law is.

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

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

I’m not very good at promotion.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.