Quotes by Norman Cousins

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."

"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

"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."

"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."