We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

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.

Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.

In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

There are different wells within your heart. Some fill with each good rain, Others are far too deep for that.

THANKS: Be Grateful for what God has given you GIVING: Be Faithful with what God has given you.

No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST

A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.