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

But still, like air, I'll rise

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.