"Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose."
"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."
Doug Larson on Anniversary"We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
W. Somerset Maugham on Anniversary"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
Martin Luther on Anniversary"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
Benjamin Franklin on Anniversary"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
George Bernard Shaw on Anniversary"Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent."
"Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it."
"If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him."
"Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear."
"I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become."