"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

"All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it."

"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."

"I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that."

"Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."

"I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much."

"Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished."

"Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman."

"Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman."