Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

How we eat can change the world

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, what I have done will not be fulfilled until the end has arrived.

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Sometimes silence can seem so loud.