"[MUSIC] [NOISE] Thank you. Whoo. Love it. Love, love love. Tweet tweet. [SOUND] Whoo! [SOUND] You. [INAUDIBLE] So happy to be in the bubble. Whoo. [LAUGH] Love it. Aren't you all the luckiest people i..."

"[LAUGH] But to get things started, I want, I thought we'd frame today's talk with framing three sections with quotes of yours that you shared after wrapping up your 25th season and final season of the..."

"He said, I couldn't draw a straight line with a ruler. [LAUGH] And and I got a call in that class, from a guy at the local station CBS, and he have been calling me several times when I was working in ..."

">> Mm-hm. >> Having in mind Barbera Walters but thinking. Oh, okay I can do that. Not knowing how to write or film or anything. >> Mm-hm. >> And I think it was because it was the, it was the times and..."

"not the right thing for me even though I was happy to have the job. >> Right. >> I got an offer to go to Atlanta. I was making $10,000 a year in 1971, but still in college, so I was thinking I was doi..."

"myself. It felt like an unnatural act for me reporting, although I knew that to a lot of people, it was glamorous. And, I started to just inside myself think what, what do I really wanna do, what I re..."

">> Right. >> What is the next true thing for me. >> It felt right to you, so you went for it. >> Cuz it felt like this is now the move I need to make. And I was not one of those people you know, all o..."

"And there's a wonderful phrase by Maya Angelou, from a poem that she wrote called To Our Grandmothers, that she says, when I come as one but I stand as 10,000. [COUGH] So when I walk into a room and p..."

"process for myself, of preparing myself for, you will not be here long. You are not gonna be able to get what you need. I had a boss at the time who was African American, and had just been for the fir..."

">> So you used that as momentum to just leave, cut your losses and go. >> No, I just [INAUDIBLE] and I filed it away. >> [CROSSTALK] Yeah. >> There will come a time. >> [LAUGH] Huh, it's gonna come ba..."

"And what my real contribution is, it looks like I'm a, I was a talk show host. It looks like, you know, I'm in the movies. It looks like, you know, I have a network. But my real contribution, the reas..."

"[CROSSTALK] Yeah, that's what it was. >> Great, and that's a perfect segue to go to our second section. Which I read this quote, and it just struck me as so true, and I wanted to delve into it. I've t..."

">> Yep. >> And the being fuels the doing, so, I come from a centered place. I come from a focus place, I come from compassion it's just, it's just my nature, I come from a willingness to understand. A..."

"Through the whole process, because I'm grounded, in my own self, that although I could have more shoes, my feet stayed on the ground. Although I was wearing better shoes, these are kinda cute today to..."

"reason why the show worked is because I understood that that audience. My viewers, the people who watched us everyday, and would come, and just like you all did. Get tickets, and they would come with ..."

"At times, I might have had better shoes. But at the core, the core of, of what really matters, that we are the same. You know how I know that? Cuz all of us are seeking the same thing. You're here at ..."

"Because that, that's what I truly feel. And when I sit down to talk to somebody, whether I'm talking to a murderer. I sat down and I interviewed a guy who, killed his twin daughters. I've interviewed ..."

"Now I couldn't articulate that at the time, but I just knew let met get out of here. But now, I know, I can feel it inside of myself. I'm not going to get the validation that I'm looking for. I also k..."

"I want to switch gears and focus a bit on philanthropy. >> Are you worried about getting all of your stuff in? >> no, we're doing great. We're just going to keep going. I think everyone likes this, ri..."

">> These are so well thought out. >> Thank you. >> Okay, let me think about that for a moment. [SOUND]. Very good. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Well I would have to say, that, you need both. You need emotio..."

"Everybody knows my story as a poor negro child growing up in apartheid Mississippi. And if it were not for education and being born at the right time. Cuz I was literally born in the year of desegrega..."

"So, for me it's using my philanthropy to do what I have found to be enormously helpful. You know, the light in my life was education. So for me, in the beginning when I started to make money, especial..."

"to be very involved in your philanthropy and your school. Is there anything left that you're scared to try? >> [LAUGH]. >> Whoa, Amanda. You must have been up all night long. >> I've prepared a little..."

"You're just like oh, my God, another day! It's so great! Because everybody has a purpose. So you're whole thing is to figure out what that is. Your real job is to figure out why you're really here and..."

"of us have the ability to do it, at whatever level you are. At whatever level, and I always say to people, oh, I have a big stage. Some people have a smaller stage. Some people have you know, what's y..."

"Now, I don't know that is such a complex, beautiful question and the fact that you are even asking it or engaged in the process of trying to figure out the answer thrills me, cuz that's what would hap..."

"I used to be afraid of that. I used to be afraid, particularly, from people who'd say, oh, she's so full of herself. Mm, she's so full of herself and now, I embrace it. I consider it a compliment that..."

"So how do you continue to prepare yourself to live out the highest, fullest, truest expression of yourself as a human being? I jst wanna end with this: there are no mistakes. There really aren't any, ..."