Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

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.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

We are our own worst inhibitors

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

It'll be okay." She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say?