If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?

Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.