JUDY SHEINDLIN

I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality.

I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate.

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

You should want to give something back.

TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

I've had an absolutely magical run.

I still think an Egg McMuffin is the best breakfast.

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

Never let anyone or anything define your value or limit your dream.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.

Uh' is not an answer.

I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success.

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

People are supposed to be responsible.

This country has a wonderful spirit.

I never don't have a good time. Even when I go to work with a cold or a sore throat, as soon as I hit the mark and walk out that door, everything else is gone, and I'm up.

A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party - and very often both - are a little disappointed.