Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.
I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.
Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.
I am my own version of the DREAM Act.
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.