"I try to be optimistic. I think that's the only way to get through life."

"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views bec…"

"The greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view."

"You're saying, no, state marriage [is] the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage."

"A great man once said that the true symbol of America is not the eagle, but the common barnyard chicken, because she is the most common bird in America and she lays eggs for everyone."