I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

—Mignon McLaughlin

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

—Mignon McLaughlin

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

—Mignon McLaughlin

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

—Rollo May

It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

—Elbert Hubbard

Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.

—Erich Heller

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

—Mother Teresa