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In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.

I would have liked to be Birbal in Akbar's court, but a court jester also suits me just fine.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to win the next point.