"There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive."

"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."

"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience'."

"What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self."

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

"As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free."

"If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay."

"Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

"Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth."

"You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"When I didn't have friends, I had books."

"The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give."

"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free."

"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."

"Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate."

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

"You cannot hate other people without hating yourself."

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

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

"She will always be the rainbow in my clouds."

"Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life."

"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."