He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

An old friend is a new house.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.

Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

What you believe in, is the life you decide.

I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.