More quotes by Norman Cousins

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."
"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
"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."
"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."