In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.

I'm not the most organized person.

Over the years, Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.

My earliest memories are of visiting the justice department.

Everyone who has had success in his or her field of endeavor has had a mentor along the way.

For centuries, from the dirt roads of Trenton, to the hills of Virginia, to the trenches of Amiens, our armed forces never fought in a war they didn't win.