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

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.

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.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Your eyes hide a tenderness that is more sensitive than all the red roses of the world.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.