The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

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

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.