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

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

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.

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.

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.

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.