... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115 - Sonia Sotomayor

Look at another person and understand no matter how much you disagree with them… if you look, you will find good in them.

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells, that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148