Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.

A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, "Yes, someone like me can do this."

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

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.