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.

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

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.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't now. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in the world, and that is peace and comfort.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

I fell in love with doing yoga.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.