Sage Quotes

(in 1994 interview, on how she got cast in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)) I did it because, frankly, I couldn`t get any other work then. I liked the show, so I asked if I could be on it. As a matter of fact, I asked twice. The first time, I sent a message to LeVar Burton asking him to tell the producers that I would really like to be on the show. He got the message to the producers and they said, "Yeah, right. Whoopi wants to do "Star Trek". One of the members (Gates McFadden) left the show and I heard about it, so I approached the show`s producers again and said, "Listen, I don`t know if you know it or not, but I`ve been trying for a long time now to get on this show." They said LeVar had told them about it and they thought he was kidding. I told them I can`t do all the episodes but I would like to do some of them. "Can I have the job?" They finally said, "Sure, we`ll build you a bar". And they built me Ten-Forward. I got to go in and be really sage and wear great hats. I also got to hang out with some extraordinary people, like Patrick Stewart, LeVar and Jonathan Frakes.

I sold The Brown Bunny camera package because I had organized it so methodically, so precisely, that I couldn`t let anyone touch it, scratch it, or break it up. I just had to get it out of my life. The package was sold to Sage Stallone who`s one of my favorite people in this whole world, one of the smartest, young, goofy kids I`ve ever known in my whole life. So it went to like my hero.

(2007) Release of her book, "Sage-ing While Age-ing".

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I`ve never seen anyone take to the booth as quickly as Lou. He`s smart and sage.

I`m not a guru or a sage. I`m a storyteller. The only times I get disturbed is when I find people who seem to be taking this too seriously.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.