Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

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.

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.

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

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.