How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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.

To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.

I exaggerateThere is a lie in my truthLook! My soul is blue

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

Wherever a man lives, he may live well.

The Second Coming will probably happen within the lifetime of people living today.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion