The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

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.

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

Kindness is a magical magnet which can change your heart and perceptions without actually touching you.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.