Sandra Day O'Connor

U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
(1930- )

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 from one to another that creates something.


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.

I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. {Or lack thereof...}

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come. {Family.....not village. This, satan has known and has used to his advantage.....destroying the family, destroys civilization.}

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 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. {Nor should the courts be making law....the legislative branch was designed for that.}

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