Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

“Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”

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

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

“It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to our friendship that we are not.”

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

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

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

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

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.”

“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“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 wa...”

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

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

“No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.”

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

“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”