I love the smell of estrogen in the morning. — Katie Couric

It’s these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters. — Katie Couric

No. 2––he loves to eat curry, what? indian food! what’s wrong with you people? — Katie Couric

Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues. — Katie Couric

Be bold, be humble, be brave, be resilient, be productive, be good, good to yourselves and good to each other. Be careful; be caring. — Katie Couric

I knew I had to be a journalist because I’m deeply curious about the world. — Katie Couric

Changing the world doesn’t happen all at once. It isn’t a big bang. It’s an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you. — Katie Couric

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair! — Katie Couric

If mitch does it, then a lot of other republicans obviously, bill, will follow line, do you think we’re living in a fantasy world? — Katie Couric

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out. — Katie Couric

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami. — Katie Couric

Nobody ever asks men about the work–life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I’m sure they want to be good partners. — Katie Couric

It’s fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that’s really all that matters when it’s all said and done. — Katie Couric

Can you explain what Internet is? — Katie Couric

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I’m trying to handle everything that’s happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can’t necessarily win all the time. — Katie Couric

You see, that’s the problem I have with ‘you people.’ — Katie Couric

What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude. — Katie Couric

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that’s really motivating. — Katie Couric

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts. — Katie Couric

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over. — Katie Couric

A boat is always safe in the harbor,’ she wrote. ‘But that’s not what boats are built for. — Katie Couric

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on. — Katie Couric

I don’t always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. — Katie Couric

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you’ll be. — Katie Couric

Yeah, i mean it was really just a privacy thing, it wasn’t one of those…. — Katie Couric

A lot people I know–it drives them crazy when they’re watching, to see the people with their signs and waving, but there’s something that’s very inclusive about it. — Katie Couric

I always say that I started in television when harassed was two words instead of one. — Katie Couric

He played such an outsized role in my life was as warm loving generous off camera as He was on. willard, you didn’t make it to tHe front of tHe smucker’s jar but you changed so many lives for tHe better. — Katie Couric

So I don’t really focus too much on that, and I think it’s dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you’re not going to be doing a really quality job yourself. — Katie Couric

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn’t he? A bit of a fighter? — Katie Couric

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even. — Katie Couric