Oprah Winfrey

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

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 don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

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

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment

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.

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.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.