“Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.”

“Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.”

“Love is not enough. Life and marriage is so much more complicated than this”

“never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”

“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”

“Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.”

“The biggest thing, the most important thing I learned about watching someone I loved being ill was to take each day and live it because you never knew how many days you had left with the person you loved.”