Zitate und Sprüche von Norman Cousins

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

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

You're lucky we're not in Los Angeles, because Angelinos can smell BS a mile away.

I'm from the Compton slums, and that's how the West ride
I'm from the city where two of the best died

I moved to Los Angeles for two reasons. One is to run away from a boy. Two is to chase a boy.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

This is why you never go to New Jersey!

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, we gotta go to Jersey.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.

You're asking me if I have any gum? That's like asking New Jersey if it has any sl-ts!

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to New Jersey - and that's pretty much the same thing.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

My son Jack once said to me, "Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?"
I said, "I don't care as long as they're laughing."

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

In all of the world's books in all libraries in the universe, I couldn't find the words to describe what I feel about you.

Mr. President, Ukraine did not "start" this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.