“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!”

“How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!”

“The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.”

“... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.”

“Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.”

“You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so…yes, love!…”