"Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey

“I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.”

“Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”

“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.”

“Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.”

“Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the mechanics that allow people to have more effective, loving lives, lives of more connection, community, and communion.”

“[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakespeare and listen, with satisfaction, for echoes. Here the lion and the hartebeest lay together, here the jackass became a unicorn.”

“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.”

“If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.”

“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”