When marrying, ask yourself: do you believe you will enjoy talking with this person into your old age?

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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, 'I have just lost the love of my life.'

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?