All the life lessons and insights talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has been compiling while writing for her magazine "O" are now available in a book form.
Winfrey calls "What I Know For Sure" as "my own private book of revelations".
"It's all the life lessons, aha's and insights I've been compiling for the past 14 years of writing for 'O, The Oprah Magazine' condensed in one cute and handy volume. I love the way it feels in my hand. This is a good one to keep by your bed side table and share with friends," she says about her book published by Pan Macmillan.
After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Winfrey began writing the 'What I Know For Sure' column in "O, The Oprah Magazine".
Saying that the question offered her a way to take stock of her life, Oprah has penned one column a month over the past 14 years. Throughout it all, she's continued to offer words of wisdom in her column.
"As you read about all the lessons I've struggled with, cried over, run over, circled back to, made peace with, laughed about, and at long last come to know for sure, my hope is that you'll begin to ask yourself the very same question Gene Siskel asked me all those years ago," she says.
These thoughts have been revised, updated, and collected in the book packed with insight and revelation from Winfrey.
Organised by theme - joy, resilience, connection, gratitude, possibility, awe, clarity, and power - these essays offer a rare and powerful glimpse into the mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women.
In one of the several incidents that are mentioned in the book, she recalls one during her show in which singer Tina Turner appeared.
"I wanted to run away with her, be a backup girl, and dance all night at her concerts," she writes.
Winfrey's dream came true one night when her show went on tour with Turner.
"After a full day's rehearsal for just one song, I got my chance. It was the most nerve-racking, knee-shaking, exhilarating experience ever," she recalls.
She says these moments come once.
"You have the choice this very moment - the only moment you have for certain. I hope you aren't so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself - because this moment is about to be over.
"I hope you'll look back and remember today as the day you decided to make every one count, to relish each hour as if there would never be another," she advises.
