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

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

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

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.