A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

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.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.