Barbara Walters Quotes

Don’t let the bastards get you down.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

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 life can have a purpose.

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.

I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.

Après ski is my favorite sport.

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.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

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.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

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 earth means.