Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.