Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey
I dont think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. – 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 grandmothers life. – Oprah Winfrey
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. – Oprah Winfrey
A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot…. We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, 1860