Barbara Walters

“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.”

“No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.”

“To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.”

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

“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”

“A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.”

“Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.”

“Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.”

“Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.”

“Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.”

“I didn't have a very religious family.”

“I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.”

“A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.”

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

“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”

“But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.”

“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 regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.”

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

“I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.”