The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

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.

True kindness is evidence of true courage.

Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Life is an adventure. No-one knows if you can do it but yourself. Set a high bar.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.