On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette ' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion gay marriage stem cell research all of those things you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could with equal validity assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Those who condemn gay marriage yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce are in my view missing the real issue.

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well in the storybooks I read there were never long long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desperate to get out.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give the more they possess.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

We always love those who admire us but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants and giraffes and crocodiles and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children and enjoy it.

Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.

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.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Those whom we can love we can hate to others we are indifferent.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.