"A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better."
- Barbara Walters
"Trust your gut."
"To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling."
"[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy."
"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."
"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."
"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt."
"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."