Barbara Walters

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

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

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

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

“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 - eve...”

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

“Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.”

“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.”

“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 plac...”

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