Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

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

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

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

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

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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