I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

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.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to the infinite, which operates through them.

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.