If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.