If someone angers you, they control you.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

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.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.