We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.
Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.
I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social consideration...
I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ...
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.
I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be.
Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that...
I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
