Nothing but beauty and douceur

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.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

You make me want to suck a bruise on you just to kiss it better.--Luc to Jane--

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.