Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

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.

The course of our lives can be altered when we receive the gift of knowledge.

There is not point keeping up with the Joneses if they’re going someplace you don’t want to go.

From the way his face lit with curiosity to the slight tilt of his jaw, even the lingering scent of brine and breeze gave him away.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.