Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.
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...
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.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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 can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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.
A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better.
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though i...