Mignon Mclaughlin

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

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

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

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

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

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

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.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

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

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

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.

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

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

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

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

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

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

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

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

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.