I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

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.

We are capable of anything and everything

As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.

I know what I want! And I just go for it.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.