Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. - Norman Cousins. View more images...

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. - Norman Cousins. View more images...

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins. View more images...

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins. View more images...

The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins. View more images...

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. - Norman Cousins. View more images...