Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.

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 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.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.