The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time - Julia Child

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

"After we'd moved into 81, we had placed an order for a phone, and waited. First a man came by to see if we lived where we said we did. Then two men visited to make a "study" of our situation. Then another man appeared to find out if we really wanted a phone. The process was very French, and made me laugh, especially when I thought of how quickly such a transaction would have taken place in the States."

Remember, ‘No one’s more important than people’!” In other words, friendship is the most important thing — not career or housework, or one’s fatigue — and it needs to be tended and nurtured.