Barbara Walters

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

Barbara Walters

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

Barbara Walters

A conversation isn’t a competition.

Barbara Walters

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Barbara Walters

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

Barbara Walters

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.

Barbara Walters

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

Barbara Walters

Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.

Barbara Walters

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Barbara Walters

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.

Barbara Walters