The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old with my older sister and younger brother I knew that he was gone.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

As somebody who in my second marriage insisted on a prenuptial agreement I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union in order to make sure that not only you but your partner as well knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds for any sad reason change.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.

I would absolutely definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day not a photo shoot. And once you've done that your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not it's our business.

I have a terrific marriage but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money virtue before beauty the mind before the body then thou hast a wife a friend a companion a second self.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church everyone present knows what is going to happen that night but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.