199 Quotes by Norman Cousins

"More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens."

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition."

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

"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."

"I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth."

"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 essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward."

"Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology."

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