Norman Cousins

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters…

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences…

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

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of…

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings…

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for…

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is…

We will not have peace by afterthought…

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason…

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic…

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If…

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all…

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the…

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside…

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history…