When I was in court I was the judge; when I was out of court I wasn't. Most people didn't address me as judge when I was in public.

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain your evaluation of that evidence.

I have tried to make sure I knew the law and what the most recent changes were, and I've applied the law to the facts. I have not lost sleep over the decisions I have made.

I sleep well. In my entire legal career, I have not lost much sleep at night worrying about things, because I've done what I could do in the time I had, and I've got some rest.

Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

How long did it take to become a gracious person? One who could accept help and give thanks without being resentful of it?

Gratitude is the experience of our true self.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.