Justice

Education is no equalizer — rather, it is the sleep that precedes the American Dream. So wake up. Lift your voices until you've patched every hole in a child's broken sky.

The only answer to more hate is more humanity. We gotta replace fear with curiosity.

The world is not a meritocracy, but merit still matters. The world isn't fair, but being fair still matters. The world is unkind, but being kind still matters, perhaps more than anything.

We are linked, we are not ranked. We are linked with each other, we are linked with nature. And the paradigm becomes a circle, not a pyramid.

It is okay to encourage others to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. But if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

We always move forward when we say we can make this table bigger.

Whereas children here had ghosts and the boogeyman, our equivalents were our governments.

Judge work by the quality of what they produce, not the number of hours they put in. Stand up for play — for the leisure that will renew and recharge you. Stand up for love. Stand up for each other.

What gnaws at you? And what will you do about it?

We are not so good. We are humans, and, as such, we are, without our quite knowing it, always living at least partly in the dark.

That fairness that my parents and I take for granted, that many Americans take for granted, is in many ways resting on your shoulders to uphold. You represent those who will make laws and effect change.

In the profession of the law, it's not how much you make that matters, but whether you make a difference.