The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

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's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

I really don't care about birthdays. It's something where even as a kid, I never really felt comfortable when someone would sing to me.

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.