Occupation: Journalist Birth: September 25, 1929
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews..
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people..
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms..
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your l….
Don't let the bastards get you down..
A conversation isn't a competition..
Work 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 quit….
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better..
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 ….
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth..
I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.'….
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 ….
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The sig….
I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites peo….
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman..
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to unders….
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, Christiani….
politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a….
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. Thi….
I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!.