Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

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.

You need to characterize beauty by association.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

Word of mouth is very powerful.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

"But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them."

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.