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

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.

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.

Funny thing, how much weaker boys are than girls.

I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.

When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.

Donald Trump's against amnesty and I'm against amnesty, not that anybody should care what a consultant thinks.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.