To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.