Children have the right to grow up in a family with a father and mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity. Today marriage and the family are in crisis. We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

Many brief follies-that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.