Oprah Winfrey

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.