"What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men."

"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."

"The only war is the war you fought in. Every veteran knows that."

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

"Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things."

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."

"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"