“Our first journey is to find that special place for us.”

“The journey is its own reward.”

“Walking is a man's best medicine.”

“The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.”

“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.”

“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.”