That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

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.

It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Hush, self, let me think.