Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done!

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

It shouldn't hurt to be a child.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.