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.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

- Oprah Winfrey

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

- Oprah Winfrey

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand

- Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

- Oprah Winfrey

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

- Oprah Winfrey

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script

- Oprah Winfrey

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

- Oprah Winfrey

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment

- Oprah Winfrey

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

You become what you believe.

- Oprah Winfrey