Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.