Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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