From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.

And now she began muttering to herself. "God, who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

We live in stories the way fish live in water.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

I spent more time in a van then in my mom's womb.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!