The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.