Phil Donahue

“In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.”

“Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?”

“I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.”

“In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.”

“When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?”

“The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.”

“Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.”

“Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.”

“In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.”

“Miss Child is never bashful with butter.”

“I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.”

“They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.”

“Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.”

“When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.”

“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.”

“I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.”

“I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.”

“I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.”

“A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.”

“Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.”