“No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.”

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.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

The new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

We should learn to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Dissents speak to a future age.

One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus’ resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.