Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

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.

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

There are no bystanders in this life.

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