Oprah Winfrey

“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”

“Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”

“I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.”

“If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.”

“I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.”

“When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.”

“When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?”

“This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.”

“Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.”

“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.”

“Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.”

“These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!”

“You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.”

“There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.”

“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.”

“When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.”

“When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.”

“What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.”

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

“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom.”

“I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.”

“I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.”

“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go... You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.”

“Declare today "sacred timeoff limits to everyone, unless invited by you. Take care of your personal wants and needs. Say no, graciously but firmly, to others' demands."”

“I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.”

“To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.”

“The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.”

“Leadership is about empathy.”

“What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.”

“When people show you who they are ... believe them!”

“In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.”

“You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.”

“The best of times is now.”

“Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.”

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

“I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.”

“there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it”

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

“When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.”

“The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.”

“Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.”

“Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.”

“The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.”

“Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.”

“The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.”

“We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.”

“Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.”