We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

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.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

Pessimism is a waste of time.