Read Oprah's complete interviews with some of the world's most remarkable people.

Oprah talks to Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela talk about South African apartheid, demanding respect, finding love, and what he's learned about the art of peace.

Ralph Lauren, the visionary American dream-maker who's turned a look (and a necktie) into a $10 billion empire, talks with Oprah about the fabric of his amazing life, his health crisis, and his extraordinary new center for cancer care and prevention.

Maya Angelou, the woman Oprah calls mentor-mother-sister-friend, offers wise words about the roots of confidence, the trouble with modesty and how to do the impossible.

Oprah goes heart to heart with singer and actress Bette Midler, and discovers that beneath that over-the-top presence is a down-to-earth homebody, crusader, wise woman, and funny girl.