I am rich because I sell a lot of books, but it's not my drive.

I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

You never see a French person eating alone.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.

Only the Republican Party cares about the issues that concern me.

I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.