Barbara Walters

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

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

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

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.