But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger depression drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything now he was up he was happy he was filled with his dream.