The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.
Norman CousinsNothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
Norman CousinsIt is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
Norman CousinsThe essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.
Norman CousinsFreedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
Norman Cousins