I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

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

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