We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.