Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

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.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

I've played with Mardy Fish a lot. Played with him, I think, two years ago in one of the weekend rounds.

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.