More from Mignon McLaughlin
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
- If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.
- It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
- It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
- Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
Last reviewed 2026-07-06