Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

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.

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

Kindness is the beauty of the heart and the smiles of the mind.

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

Revived spirit, restored strength.

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence.

Love is stolen in the shadows of the night. Though it's wrong all along, it keeps going on as long as they keep it out of sight.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.