The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

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.

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

One can not impede scientific progress.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.