Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.