The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had them. I do believe that life experiences are important to the process of judging - They help you to understand and listen - but that the law requires a result. And it would command you to the facts that are relevant to the disposition of the case.

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

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

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.