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

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.

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

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

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