The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

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

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

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

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

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