"Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren."

“I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'”

“I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.”

Source : "Ann Dowd's One-Woman Oscar-Nomination Campaign". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 12, 2013.

“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.”

“We're here on Earth to fart around”

“There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.”

Source : FaceBook post by Viola Davis from May 26, 2016

“It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

“We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.”

Source : Nova Ren Suma (2015). “The Walls Around Us”, p.11, Algonquin Books

“Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.”

Source : "Golden Repair of the Cracks in the World" by Michael Meade, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.