This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

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.

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

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

The artist has only to trust his eyes.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it!

There is more at stake here than just our lives. It is the lives around us.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.