The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Belief creates biology.

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.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.