Quotes from Barbara Walters

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

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.

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

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

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

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.

What touched me the most about the Dalai Lama was his definition of the purpose of life. It was, he said, "to be happy." How does one accomplish that? I asked. "I think warm-heartedness and compassion," he replied. "Compassion give you inner strength, more self-confidence. That can really change your attitude.

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.

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

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.

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

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

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.

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

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.

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

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

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.

Trust your gut.

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

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.