Mignon McLaughlin

"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."