"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."

"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."

"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."

"But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems."

"I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy."

"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."

"Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done."