We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

This chance will stand before you only once.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Joy is the life of man's life.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.

Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.