May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

It’s so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase ‘quality time’ means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can’t black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

The argument that gay marriage doesn’t affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.