The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

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.

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.

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

You are letting this feeling get cold, I cant blame you, you must know you are free to go... Don't you ever look back... If you wonder why it is because I wont be there.

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

... privation is the source of appetite.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.