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

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

—Mignon McLaughlin

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

—Mignon McLaughlin

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The day, water, sun, moon, night—I do not have to purchase these things with money.

—Plautus

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

—Philip K. Dick

There's no night without stars.

—Andre Norton