Oprah Winfrey

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

“For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.”

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

“I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.”

“I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.”

“What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.”

“If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.”

“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.”

“You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.”

“What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.”

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”

“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”

“All pain is the same.”

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

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”