Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

[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.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost the race, overrun the Earth's capacity. I let one question lead to the next, and unearthed information that would forever change my life: Not only is there enough food in the world to feed every man, woman, and child on Earth, there is enough to make us all chubby.

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

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

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.