Oprah Winfrey: Do The Right Thing

These are the 3 Rules of Life that Oprah Winfrey swears by

Transcript

00:00A Sunday school teacher by day, and a sex addict at night.

00:04Ooh.

00:07They were like, you won't believe it.

00:09We got her going out.

00:11We got her with the men.

00:13And we get to show her, and she was willing to show us everything.

00:18I sat down with a woman for an interview that was taped.

00:23And during the process of the interview, I said, why are you doing this?

00:29And she said, oh, I want to help people.

00:31I want to tell my story, and I want to help people.

00:33I said, do you have children?

00:35She says, yes, I have a 10-year-old son.

00:38I knew right then, this is never going to see the light of day.

00:42So we got off the air, and I said to the lady, we are not going to air that show.

00:47And she said, why?

00:50My producer said, why?

00:53She knew she was being filmed.

00:55She knew what she was saying.

00:57And I told you, I said, because her son will never get over it.

01:02You always know it's the right thing when, in the end, there is peace.

01:08You are rewarded by peace in knowing that you did the right thing.

01:15The three things that I want to leave with you will carry you if you let them.

01:21First and foremost, knowing who you are.

01:28Being able to answer this question, who am I, and what do I want?

01:35I'm not asking for the roles that you play as a daughter, as a friend, as a sister.

01:40You're going to be a lawyer. You're going to teach.

01:43I'm asking the bigger question of who am I, and what do I want?

01:50I don't want to just be successful in the world.

01:56I want to fulfill the highest, truest expression of myself as a human being.

02:06I want to fulfill the promise that the creator dreamed when he dreamed the cells that made up me.

02:16You must have some kind of vision for your life.

02:22Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go.

02:28You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life, because if you're not, life will drive you.

02:34Number two, you must find a way to serve.

02:41Martin Luther King said that not everybody can be famous, but everybody can be great,

02:47because greatness is determined by service.

02:51When you shift the paradigm of whatever it is you choose to do to service,

02:56and you bring significance to that, success will, I promise you, follow you.

03:03That's number two. Number three, it's so simple, but so hard to do.

03:08Always do the right thing.