I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that I think express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is hidden or flaunted a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there and the couples live happy lives and there's nothing wrong with it.

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

There were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

When we ask for love we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you be accepted and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.