Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

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.

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.

I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

When I pressed Jesus to my heart, I said to Him: 'I will be a priest. I promise You!' ...Oh, what graces Our Lord gave me then! Yes, I believe my conversion at that time was sincere and perfect.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.