The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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.

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.