Favorite Quotations Sandra Day O'Connor Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short winded.