I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

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.

Put fourth your best effort in whatever you do...it may be your one and only shot.

A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

Go and fight every day, no matter what's happened the day before or what might happen.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.