Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

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.

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.