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

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.

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

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

Every day I make a choice to bring my own sunshine.

No weight in her pockets and far too much heaviness in her heart.

Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

You should never poison a witch.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.