It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn’t say.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Marry somebody you love. That’s the whole thing. And continue to love them.

A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

I’ve learned … that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Love is the law of life.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Love is no assignment for cowards.