By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

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.

Reflecting on these events makes me grateful for the blessings of home and family, and in particular for 70 years of marriage. I don't know that anyone had invented the term 'platinum' for a 70th wedding anniversary when I was born. You weren't expected to be around that long.

If I am asked what I think about family life after 25 years of marriage, I can answer with equal simplicity and conviction, I am for it.