Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

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

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

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

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

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.