Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

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.

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

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

My son always says I like very weird music.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.