You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

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

Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.