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That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It's just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn't fun.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue.

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it.

Fatherhood has gone and done much more than marriage. It has made me a far more responsible person.

If I want to say anything about my life, I will say it when the time comes, be it about marriage or whatever.

Of course I would recommend marriage to others. Times are changing, even in the past people had kids without getting married but marriage gives stability to your family and people around you. It's a working institution and it can fail in certain situations.

I believe that marriage is an important part of life. So when it happens, I will definitely let the whole world know.

I have done everything in my life very normally. And marriage is definitely there on my agendas in life. But I don't know when will it happen.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.

To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

When you're in a marriage, you can't leave just because you're arguing all the time. But it does stuff to you that you don't realise at first. It damages you, and you start thinking the worst of people.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.