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

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.

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.

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

Discouraging words...discourage dreams, Encouraging words...sprout dreams, Parents plant the seeds!

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.