The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.