The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.