I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSI don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSThe origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERSMost attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
BARBARA WALTERSFor Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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 WALTERSThe news media in general are liberals.
BARBARA WALTERSSmall children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERSNo one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERSBut for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
BARBARA WALTERSTo excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
BARBARA WALTERSFor a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERSIt’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
BARBARA WALTERSWork harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
BARBARA WALTERSThis is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
BARBARA WALTERSAnd I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
BARBARA WALTERS