As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

He who angers you conquers you.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.

Never dare to turn your subconscious mind into a shelter for thoughts or beliefs that aren't working in your favor.

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.

We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.