I've never been ambitious.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

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

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