When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.