In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
