Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

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

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

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

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

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

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

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

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