Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Rejection is a challenge.

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.

In acting class, you talked always about keeping it real and don't act... connect with the people and connect with the partner that you're acting with. The same is also true in politics.

When President [Barack] Obama announced that he was leaving Iraq, I mean, he was talking about dates and times and what we're going to do.

The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

My rule is always, People first and things second.

People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision