"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

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

"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls"

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

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

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"