"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

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

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

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

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

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

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

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop"

"Marriage is the death of hope"

"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them"