If you are palpably present in the moment, continuously mindful of and responsive to your listeners, they will follow where you lead. - Sonia Sotomayor

I have followed my mother’s approach to family, refusing to limit myself to accidents of birth, blood, and marriage

But 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. 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.

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.