Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

Just because you may not feel confident about doing something now does not mean you will not master it later with ease.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.