Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

—Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Mignon McLaughlin

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

—Denis Diderot

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

—G. K. Chesterton

What we call evil is only a necessary moment in our endless development.

—Franz Kafka

Our ideals are our better selves.

—Amos Bronson Alcott