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“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”
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“The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.”
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“Fear God and work hard.”
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“All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.”
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“What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?”
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“Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.”
Source : "OSCARS Q&A: Sally Field". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.
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“There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.”
Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
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“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”