About Norman Cousins: Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
History is a vast early warning system.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
