Mignon McLaughlin

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

“If you are brave too often, people will expect it of you.”

“If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Money--in its absence we are coarse; in its presence we are vulgar.”

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

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

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