Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

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

Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

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