"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"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"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

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

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

"Action conquers fear"

"The ancestor of every action is a thought"

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"