Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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