Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

Silence is an arguement hard to refute

Charity turned over and hugged the pillow, a quote from Newton making her smile. Sleeping late was really more scientific than working out. After all, a body at rest tends to remain at rest.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.