To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.

Reality is only just a word.