Quotes Norman Cousins

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in ...

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fash...

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a pla...

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should...

Cynicism is intellectual treason....

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is...

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every bu...

He who keeps his cool best wins....

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without havi...

History is a vast early warning system....

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic....

If something comes to life in others because of you, then yo...

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it ...

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that scie...

It makes little difference how many university courses or de...

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so...

Laughter is inner jogging....

Life is an adventure in forgiveness....

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be ...

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason....

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pes...

People are never more insecure than when they become obsesse...

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual li...

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. ...

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatte...