One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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.
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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.
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.
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.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
