If someone angers you, they control you.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

He who angers you conquers you.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

She wanted him to notice her so much.

Love changes us, but we change how we love too.

I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.

We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

Dare to think for yourself.