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

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.

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.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.

I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.Lord help me.

Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

That's good. Go on, read some more.

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.