A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better.
To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.
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.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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.
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 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.
Show me someone who never gossips and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
The sports page records people’s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man’s failures.
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.
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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.
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.
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.