Quotes by Norman Cousins

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

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

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.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

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.

Optimism doesnt wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”