All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.

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

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.

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

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.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

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

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.

To the extent to which your consciousness is limited or expanded, is the extent to which you experience being divided or divine.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.