Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

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.

... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...

The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

Sometimes, 'no' really does mean no.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.