[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe 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.

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.

A truth should exist, it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

If Scotsmen don't wear anything under their kilts and they ride a horse, do you think they chafe their manbits?

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

Flowers are born, and they wither...

To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.