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.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

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

. . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is instirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize That the proper measure of success is not how much you've closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you've done today.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.