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

More Quotes by Barbara Walters

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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.

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.

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