We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

The 'C' students run the world.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.