Barbara Walters

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.

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.

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

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

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

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

I didn't have a very religious family.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

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

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.

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

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

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

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