Barbara Walters Quotes

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Après ski is my favorite sport.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

A conversation isn't a competition.

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.