Barbara Walters
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.Collection: Men
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.Collection: Clothes
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 understand and accept.Collection: Crazy
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.Collection: Children
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?Collection: Tree
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.Collection: Jobs
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.Collection: Party
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.Collection: Leadership
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.Collection: Men
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.Collection: Cuba
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 do you keep the fire going?Collection: Fire
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.Collection: Causes
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 obscure words.Collection: Thinking
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. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'Collection: Believe
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.Collection: Oysters
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 signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.Collection: Talking
The news media in general are liberals.Collection: Media
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.Collection: Compassion
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.Collection: Men
The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.Collection: Feelings
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppyCollection: Dog
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.Collection: Hands
Après ski is my favorite sport.Collection: Sports
I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!Collection: Marriage
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.Collection: Thinking
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Airplane
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 people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.Collection: Art
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 human condition.Collection: Media
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.Collection: New York
Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.Collection: Party
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.Collection: Party
I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.Collection: Years
A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.Collection: Life
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.Collection: Party
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.Collection: Children