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

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

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.

The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.