Barbara Walters

It’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 Walters

Large 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 Walters

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Barbara Walters

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

Barbara Walters

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

Barbara Walters

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

Barbara Walters

On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.’

Barbara Walters

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Barbara Walters

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

Barbara Walters

The 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 Walters