Oprah Winfrey

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

You alone are enough.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.