As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

There are no bystanders in this life.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.