A biography for Oprah Winfreyhasn’t been written yet.
“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.”
“Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.”
“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”
“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”
“I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.”
“Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.”
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
“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.”
“Every day, you're only as good as your last show.”
“When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!”
“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
“You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.”
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
“Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.”
“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
“We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
“True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”
“I'm not even kind of a lesbian.”
“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.”