Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I've never been ambitious.