Barbara Walters

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

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

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

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

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

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.

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

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

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.

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