You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

You have to take it upon yourself and preserve and can foods that you'll want for the winter.

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

I think health is the outcome of eating well.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.