My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.

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.

Just go with it', he thought. 'You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear'.

Each person carries within their core the birthright of creative freedom, which, when organized and orchestrated, is the most awesome force on earth.

Any woman can weep without tears, " she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough

Your stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.