Relationships are the core message of ecology.

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.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.