Norman CousinsThinkers

The Book is like a piece of rope... it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

The Common cold is an illness met with overreaction by men. Until they get it, they think they are immortal, but once they do, they think they are going to die within the hour.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

History is a vast early warning system.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging, in that it moves one's internal organs around and enhances respiration.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging.

A Library is a place where history comes to life.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Loneliness is individual's worst adversary. The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.