I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

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.

Don’t forgive people until they understand their mistakes.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when Im on tour thats always a good option.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.