A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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.
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.
Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
But 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.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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.
I 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.
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.
I didn't have a very religious family.
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.
I was inspired by the people who devote their life to their religion, in each case, whether you agree with them or not, trying to do good.
If 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.
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
The Buddhists feel that you are recreated as some thing, as an insect, or an animal, or a person, but that you're not in some beautiful shiny place.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
What I feel more and more is how important it is to live your life in a better way, and not to worry about it. What happens will happen.
In 1979, Barbara Walters played the cafetaria lady in the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School.
Barbara Walters won Emmy Awards in 1975, 1980, 1982, 1983, and 1997.
Barbara Walters is Jewish.
In 1977, Barbara made journalism history by arranging the first joint interview with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem.
Barbara Walters had the first formal interview with General Colin Powell since he retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In May of 2006, Barbara Walters made a comment about feeling uncomfortable on planes with a mother nursing her child next to her, which resulted in about 150 mother nursing their babies outside her View studios the next day in protest of her comment.
In 1975, Barbara Walters was the impersonated by Gilda Radner and Cheri Oteri on Saturday Night Live.
Barbara Walters was the youngest producer ever with NBC's New York station.
Barbara Walters was married to Lee Guber from 1963 until they divorced in 1976. She then was married to Merv Adelson from 1986 until they divorced in 1992.
In 1976, Barbara Walters was paid a million dollars to leave the NBC show and to work on ABC.
Barbara Walters was honored to receive honorary doctorates from Marymount College, Wheaton College, Temple University, and Hofstra University, and Ohio State University.
In 1991, Barbara Walters was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from International Women's Media Foundation.
Barbara Walter's mentor is Mike Wallace.
Barbara Walter has several nicknames like Babs, Baba Wawa, and BW.
Barbara Walters earned a B.A. in English from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
Barbara Walters named her adopted daughter, Jackie, after her sister who died of ovarian cancer.
Barbara Walters is the first female evening news anchor to appear on tv.
Barbara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 for her work in television.
Barbara's two hour interview special with Monica Lewinsky became the highest-rated news program ever broadcast by a single network. 74 million people watched that interview.
In 2003, she won a Best Talk Show Daytime Emmy for producing The View.
Her father, Lou Walters, owned Latin Quarter nightclubs in New York, Boston, and Florida.
In 1996, Barbara was honored by Museum of Television and Radio for all of her contributions to broadcast journalism.
In 1974, Barbara was the The Today Show's first female broadcaster.
In 1953, Barbara received her BA in English from Sarah Lawrence College.
Barbara once worked undercover as a Playboy Bunny.
Barbara named her daughter, Jackie, after her sister who was mentally challenged and died of ovarian cancer.
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