Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

I believe in angels. I believe in God.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.