It's what you do that makes your soul.

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.