He who angers you conquers you.

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.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

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

He who angers you conquers you.

'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, 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.

Its better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.

TV can be a long commitment.

Be prepared and be honest.

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

I am a great believer in naps, whatever age you are.

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.

I'd sit on a horse and forget I was even sick.

The house is a factory.

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Every cook I knows loves to make pizza.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.