MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

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

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

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

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.

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.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

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

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

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

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

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

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

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

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