When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.