3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin 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.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I can’t make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin 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.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.
3 December 2020 Mignon McLaughlin A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.