I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.

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.

Today's tears are an investment into tomorrow's smiles.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?