Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Every journey begins with a single step.