“I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage.”

“...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.”

“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.”

“(Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)”

“By staying married, we give something to ourselves and to others: hope. Hope that in steadfastly loving someone, we ourselves, for all our faults, will be loved; that the broken world will be made ...”

“...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.”

“Do good even if no one is watching you and do it as if everyone is watching you.”

“Online affiliation with good causes is good netiquette. Stand for something! NetworkEtiquette.net”

“An extended hand is the best weapon against a clenched fist.”

“If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.”

“Demonstrating verbal kindness looks better on everyone know matter what the situation. There's a peace in the heart of the kind person who handles everything with love.”

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way with...”

“When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.”

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”