Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

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

"Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name."

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

"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."

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

"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair."

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

"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

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

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

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

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

"Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product."

"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."

"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later."

"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."

"Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show."

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

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers."

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners."

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

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

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."

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

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

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

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