"Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug"

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

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny"

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Anatomy is destiny"

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

"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance if the circumstances around them suck they change them"

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"

"So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom"