diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

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.

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.

Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God