Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.

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.

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

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

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.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.