Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

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 demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.