Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

I think whether you've got children or not you're just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.