To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

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.

A book without words is a mind without thought.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

I like to move. Because that's where the action comes from.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Changing your life means changing your past.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.