Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

We are all alike, on the inside.

I’m a fry lover.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

My mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.