[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.

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.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.