Oprah Winfrey

"With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health."

"Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go."

"Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction."

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

"Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure."

"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."

"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."

"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull."

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly."

"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."

"I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage."

"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."

"If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure."

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

"What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives."

"Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now."

"When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are."

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that."