the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

I am an affirmative action hire.