Norman Cousins

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”

“Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.”

“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”