George A. Moore Quotes

I would like to be known as someone who was really sweet but also knowledgeable in all areas of life.

My father has lived a remarkable life and has lived it with great humility.

I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

As a working woman at the height of my career, I know age has only enhanced my professional and personal abilities. It has brought a sense of calm to the drive for success.

The longer you live, I believe, you learn so much about life that you have more to give.

I'm not 6'3, 6'4, but I got a big heart, and that's it.

I am all-giving like my mother and practical like my father.

I never try boost my career of the less fortunate somebody. Because if I gotta call and get press off of it - it ain't coming from my heart.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.