Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

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.

Creativity flourishes where there is freedom.

The darker it gets, the brighter your dreams shine.

Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

He said “woman” in the same way I’d say “Mmmmm, yummy chocolate” after waking up from hunger pains and finding a Hershey bar in an empty refrigerator.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.