Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."