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.

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.

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.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Don’t let go of your heart-love, soul mate!

Never give up! With every step you take in your journey, you are forming your dreams.

Courtship is driven by hormones

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.

In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.

Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.