You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a c….

Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's….

By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make p….

You want a judge who makes objective decisions, and that's why temperament is such an important component of being a judge. You have to earn people's….

I have told somebody in court that 'I understand yours is the most important case in the world, and I'm trying to treat it as the most important case….

I will miss the contact with the people - the privilege of trying to communicate to people every day that the court system is going to work for them ….

I sleep well. In my entire legal career, I have not lost much sleep at night worrying about things, because I've done what I could do in the time I h….

You really don't want to go to court and have the judge decide based on whether or not they're your friend, because you don't want to be thinking tha….

One of the more difficult things about being a judge is as you're listening to the evidence, you have to be formulating how you're going to explain y….

As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people wh….

I have tried to make sure I knew the law and what the most recent changes were, and I've applied the law to the facts. I have not lost sleep over the….

When I was in court I was the judge; when I was out of court I wasn't. Most people didn't address me as judge when I was in public..