Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

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.

Life is all about making choices, as in a game of chess. The moves from other side are predetermined against every move of yours. But with each move, you shift your destiny for better or worse.

I don't have to be safe to feel safe, I always feel safe at my core.

I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.