Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

I don't see it as a risk, I see it as living.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream