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

He edited the high school paper "The Square Deal" where his editing abilities were already in evidence. He wrote a collection of best-selling non-fiction books on illness and healing as well as a 1980 autobiographical memoir Human Options: An Autobiographical Notebook. "When the pain-killing effect of the laughter wore off we would switch on the motion picture projector again and not infrequently it would lead to another pain-free interval.

Norman Cousins (June 24 1915 – November 30 1990) was an American political journalist author professor and world peace advocate.