If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

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.

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

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.

Hold the flame of faith, it quench all doubt of darkness.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

Defeat is only a defeat when we don't learn anything.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.