I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Take my wife… Please!

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

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

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.