I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I’m at Mass. My mother always said, ’We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people’s health, we pray that God’s will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.’

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Sometimes I inspire my patients; more often they inspire me.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Care for one, that's love. Care for all, that's nursing.