Norman Cousins
  • A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

  • Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  • Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  • 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.

  • Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.