Oprah Winfrey

I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.

I won't say goodbye, I'll just say until we meet again. To God be the glory.

I understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?

What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that [the lawsuit] was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.

My reaction is that free speech not only lives, it rocks!

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!