"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"

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

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

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband"

"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"

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

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

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

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