Oprah Winfrey

I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

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

When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

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

When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.

Find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.

It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

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.