The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.