"Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference."

“Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

“Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.”

“I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.”

“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”

“I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.”

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”

“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.”

“I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.”