“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.”

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.

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.

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.

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.

Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.