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

Live life as if it were created just for you.

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.