Norman Cousins (1915 – 1990)
Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California and a prominent world federalist leader.
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
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.
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources — spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.