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.

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.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

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.

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.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

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

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

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 man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

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.

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.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

I didn't have a very religious family.