No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

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 one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.