I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, "Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world.

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.

I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

Love is a lesson worth learning.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces