I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

Don't let fear stop you. Don't give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

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.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.