"When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles."

“I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.”

“If life is worth living then it's worth recording.”

“To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!”

“Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.”

“Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.”

Source : Hoda Kotb (2011). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

“A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.”

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

“I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.”