Mignon McLaughlin

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had…

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

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent…

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

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change…

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list…

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to…

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone…

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them…

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

Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway…

Most sermons sound to me like commercials – but I can’t make out whether God is…

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles…

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers…

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or…