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

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

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

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

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.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

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