My guilty pleasure is doing nothing, says Oprah Winfrey

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey said she loves doing "nothing" when she has some time off work.

The 64-year-old media mogul said she does not know anyone who is happier than her.

"I don't know anyone happier. I don't know anyone who has a better life, or had a better life. I look at other people and I think, they look happy. But not as happy as me.

"I can go weeks and never turn on a television. I've gone a summer not having it on. No, my guilty pleasure is, I do nothing. I live in a very beautiful space that I created, and every time I leave home and I'm driving out the back with the pond and the ducks, and I'm looking at the grass and I see the house on the hill, I have this moment where I think about when Dorothy says in 'The Wizard of Oz', 'I learnt I didn't have to look further than my own back yard.' Every time I think of that," Winfrey told Vogue magazine.

"A Wrinkle In Time" actor said she is one of the lucky ones who knows what makes her happy.

"Most people don't even know what makes them happy. But I can just sit on my porch and I'll start reading a book and then realise, OK, I'm not reading any more. I can just take it all in. I can just be," she said.