Quotes

“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 want.” Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

“A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.” Mignon McLaughlin

“Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.” Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.” Mignon McLaughlin

“There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.” Mignon McLaughlin

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

“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.” Mignon McLaughlin

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

“We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.” Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.” Mignon McLaughlin

“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.” Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.” Mignon McLaughlin

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” Mignon McLaughlin

“I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.” Mignon McLaughlin

“It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.” Mignon McLaughlin

“Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.” Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.” Mignon McLaughlin