Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

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.

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.

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

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

I love dill pickles! They're on my rider for my concerts so I eat one every day.

I'm a late developer.

If anything, people think it's cool that I'm still working. I'm proud to be a working mama in this world.

We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.