Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke it becomes us to be grateful.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding and we got offered millions of dollars for them millions.

After marriage a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Love has its own time its own season and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back you never had it. If it comes back love it forever.

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and when the time comes to let it go to let it go.

I say to people who care for people who are dying if you really love that person and want to help them be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

To fall in love is easy even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Love has features which pierce all hearts he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.

True love comes quietly without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells get your ears checked.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you from her or from the meeting of your sparks.

When you love a man he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand and his outline recedes vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world the atmosphere the blue sky and the blue water.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

I'm not one of those complicated mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day taking what comes.