I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation?

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.