Barbara Walters

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then,…

— Barbara Walters

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations…

— Barbara Walters

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach…

— Barbara Walters

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow.…

— Barbara Walters

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single…

— Barbara Walters

My own opinion is that there's far too little flirtation in our country as it is. Most attractive males talk to most…

— 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…

— Barbara Walters

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime --…

— Barbara Walters

A conversation isn't a competition.

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

— Barbara Walters

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

— Barbara Walters

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out…

— Barbara Walters

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…

— Barbara Walters

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

— Barbara Walters

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

— Barbara Walters

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home;…

— Barbara Walters

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more…

— Barbara Walters

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is…

— Barbara Walters

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

— Barbara Walters