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

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later blended home - and then watched that home explode too.

Of course bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

Americans who make more of marrying for love than any other people also break up more of their marriages but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

We live in grief for having left the womb for having left the teat then school then home. In my case it was leaving marriages and the death of my wife.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church everyone present knows what is going to happen that night but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved and you can have great marriages and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.