The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. – Norman Cousins
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? – 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
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. – Terry Pratchett