Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

—Mortimer Adler

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

—Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.

—Mortimer Adler

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

—Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.

—Mortimer Adler

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

—Ellen Key

If I get married, I want to be very married.

—Audrey Hepburn

Nothing anybody tells you about marriage helps.

—Max Siegel

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

—Robert Anderson

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

—Harlan Miller