Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Anderson Cooper's on-air reaction to Bob Simon's death; Wolf Blitzer personalizing his experience in going back to Auschwitz where his grandparents lost their lives - I think that has all made our air more authentic.

I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'

I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?