Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

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.

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.

Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.