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“Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.”
Source : Ian Stewart (2007). “Letters to a Young Mathematician”, p.79, Basic Books
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“Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the next argument that's made by an attorney who's appearing before them, or a comment that is made by a colleague during the conference on the case when the judges privately discuss the case.”
Source : Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006
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“Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.”
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“The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.”
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“It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.”
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“A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.”
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“Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.”
