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.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

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.

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

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.