Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
Norman CousinsMore and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.
Norman CousinsThe old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
Norman CousinsThe real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
Norman CousinsEducation tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.
Norman Cousins