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….

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven..

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

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 e….

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt..

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….

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritua….

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of o….

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

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..

I didn't have a very religious family..

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 wo….

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is..

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How d….

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 huma….

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?.

Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbra….

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self..

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 pleasur….

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself..

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..