Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

—Diane Ackerman

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

—Clint Eastwood

All marriages are mixed marriages.

—Chantal Saperstein

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

—Candice Bergen

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh