Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book

Facts are a strange thing . . . when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.

I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen.

I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.