Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something.

Love is it's own protection.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!

We are educated. We can think. We have the freedom to think.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.