Never marry who doesn't love you,If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell.

To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom...p 364

A bachelor is a selfish undeserving man who has cheated some woman out of a divorce

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

My wife and I were together for two years. Those were the best two days of my life.

Never base the success of your marriage according to the expectations of others ...

True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage not a ceremony not a piece of paper from the state

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.