That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

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.

Good leaders are intelligent

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!

To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.