Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood. – Norman Cousins
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. – Norman Cousins
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. – Norman Cousins
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it… – George Santayana, “Chapter VIII: Prerational Morality,” The Life of Reason: Volu