I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

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.

He eased back and murmured, “You taste so damn sweet. Like maple syrup.”“And you taste like stolen bacon.

I explore the mind of souls in stories.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

I love doing movies that touch people's lives.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

If you correct your hidden deeds subsequently, Allaah will correct your outward deeds.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

‎"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.