Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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.

He’s not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he’s come to wither and rot inside. But she’s still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.