Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

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.

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

Discipline is denying ourselves in the present so as to prepare better for the future.

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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Please Julian,” she whispered to him as he slept beside her. “Don’t leave me.