199 Quotes by Norman Cousins
"Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding."
"Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties."
"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."
"An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person."
"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."
"The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble."
"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."
"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."