Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

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’S SOFT EDGES‘Tis a truth I will confess that we ofttimes find soft edges –to such a degree, our livesare well manifestof people’s kindliness.

Of all the lessons my parents taught me, GIVING was the best

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

Violence and war lead only to death.

We need to empower everybody, not one person, not almost everybody, but everybody.

I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.

I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.