Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

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.

You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get.

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

When you love someone, what they want is the best that you can give them.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.