Walters: "Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt."

Walters: "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 man."

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

Walters: "I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind."

Walters: "Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties."

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

Walters: "And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones."

Walters: "One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time."

Walters: "I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me."

Walters: "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."

Walters: "Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people."

Walters: "To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated."

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

Walters: "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."

Walters: "A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."

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 week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't."

Walters: "If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative."

Walters: "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."

Walters: "Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy."

Walters: "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."

Walters: "A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence."