155 Quotes by Barbara Walters

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

The need to believe that there's a better, safer place like heaven is almost universal.

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

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

I knew that it wasn't just luck and I wasn't just at the right place at the right time. I proved it to myself. It gave me the proof that I never had.

If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be?

And 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.

In the 1970s, though, Fonda became a controversial figure when she publicly opposed the Vietnam War. I love this book. I really do...I am so pleased to have Jane Fonda back on this program. I love this book. You know that.

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.