In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage and allowing them to live together with the protection of law it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Each experience I go through - marriage my public life my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long long way in a marriage.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Since the dawn of time traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness fewer marriages would end in tears.

I've done an informal anecdotal survey about marriage and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

The thing is when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage and because I went on to have a very very unhappy two years I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do you don't for a long time.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness but stability.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.