A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

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.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.