Quotes By Norman Cousins

Laughter is inner jogging.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

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 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.