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

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

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.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.