Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin