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.
Sonia SotomayorUntil we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
Sonia Sotomayor. . . 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.
Sonia Sotomayor