If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

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

People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

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.