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

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.

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

Over-analysis is a dream killer. Sometimes you can drown yourself in your own thoughts.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

People say it's easy to make fun of retarded people, but it's not. You really have to explain it to them.

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Let your heart speak to others hearts.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.