“Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.”

“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”

“Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.”

“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”

“When God created the world, He placed sin and ignorance within satisfication of the appetite and knowledge and wisdom withing hunger. When Sahl hungered he was powerful, and whenever he ate, he became weak.”

“It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.”

“Norman Borlaug is the living embodiment of the human quest for a hunger free world. His life is his message.”

“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”

“We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.”

“Human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.”