Oprah Winfrey

I know for sure that you cannot give to everyone else and not give back to yourself. You will end up empty, or at best, less than what you can be for yourself and your family and your work. Replenish the well of yourself, for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

I know I’m a person who’s been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing.

Oprah Winfrey

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

Oprah Winfrey

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I’ve shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Oprah Winfrey

I love what the church offers to us as a culture – black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

Oprah Winfrey

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

Oprah Winfrey

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, ‘you are going to have to learn to do this,’ and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother’s life.

Oprah Winfrey

I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it’s that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

Oprah Winfrey

I want to live my life so my aura, when it leaves, is very bright.

Oprah Winfrey

I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized – and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn’t beat me up, but I got labeled ‘the preacher girl.’

Oprah Winfrey