Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

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

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

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

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.

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

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