“Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.”

“Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.”

“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”

“He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.”

“He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.”

“The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.”

“Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith. Its superstition.”

“Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.”

“In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.”

“Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.”

“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neighbors that a lawn implied; it was the lawns rel...”

“We having so much fun together!! 'through nature..through people..through religion...through culture..through friendship...we manage to learn something that lead to a better relationship among huma...”