Oprah Winfrey
Everybody looks at their poop.Collection: Poop
I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.Collection: Believe
A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.Collection: Wall
Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myselfCollection: Doors
You are awareness disguised as a human being.Collection: Inspiring
I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.Collection: People
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.Collection: Understanding
Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?Collection: Mean
I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.Collection: Feelings
Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.Collection: Talking
Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.Collection: Responsibility
I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."Collection: Book
When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?Collection: Love
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.Collection: Forgiveness
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.Collection: Confidence
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Thinking
Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.Collection: Shows
I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday.Collection: Sunday
This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."Collection: Funny
I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do. . . God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself.Collection: Dream
Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.Collection: Focus
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.Collection: Life
What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.Collection: Success
I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.Collection: Attention
What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new directionCollection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Sister
Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.Collection: Thinking
Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique waysCollection: Letting Go
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.Collection: Honor
I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.Collection: Country
Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.Collection: Gratitude
You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.Collection: Attitude
You teach people how to treat you.Collection: People
You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.Collection: Excellent
It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give youCollection: Gratitude
The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.Collection: Believe
When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.Collection: Voice
Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.Collection: Signposts
What I know is, if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. I truly believe the reason I've been so financially successful is because my focus has never been on the money.Collection: Believe
Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.Collection: Waiting
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.Collection: Running
If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.Collection: Identity
There is no doing in the world without being first.Collection: World
Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.Collection: Running
Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Growth
You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.Collection: Wise
The ultimate comfort zone is within.Collection: Comfort