"When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments"

"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"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

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

"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"

"Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it"

"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"