Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

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.

Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.