do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

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.

Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the flames until every last vestige of our guilt was consumed.

Love is love's reward.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.