Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
BARBARA WALTERSBeing a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
BARBARA WALTERSI don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERSI 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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
BARBARA WALTERSAlthough 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.
BARBARA WALTERSLarge cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
BARBARA WALTERSJust do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERSDeep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERSI 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.
BARBARA WALTERS[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
BARBARA WALTERSIf it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
BARBARA WALTERSWait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERSFor a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERSA man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERSLife sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
BARBARA WALTERS