I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

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.

Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.

Why does the forbidden always add that edge of sweetness?

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

Learn what you are good at and exploit it in service to others.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

Only God’s thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.