The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is… — 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
The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens. — 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
