Quotes By Mignon McLaughlin

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.