- When you're 92, you shouldn't have to beg for the salt shaker even if you have congestive heart failure.
- Our profession has no room for bullies or whiners.
- Every day I've held a hand but forgotten to chart vital signs I still may have come out ahead.
- A good doctor is one who'll say, "I have no idea what's going on with this patient. Come help me figure it out."
- Nursing is the hardest and easiest thing I've ever done.
- Whatever I need in a hurry will be in someone else's room.
- Healing the spirit is as important as healing the body.
- If I don't take care of myself, I can't take care of anyone else.
- A body believes every word you tell it.
- Time flies whether or not I'm having fun.
- A lot of patients get well in spite of us, but even more get well because of us.
- If I don't get emotionally involved with my patients, it's time for me to change professions.
- It's usually better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, especially if I'm taking a Saint Bernard to see a child in the ICU.
- Professionals give advice but healers share wisdom.
- If I don't celebrate the exquisiteness of each day, I've lost something I'll never get back.
- Grief knows no rules.
- The more unloving a patient acts, the more he needs to be loved.
- Some things have to be believed to be seen.
- No one promises us tomorrow.
- If I can't cure, I can still care.