«Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.»

«Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.»

«Never criticize your spouse's faults; if it weren't for them, your mate might have found someone better than you»

«Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.»

«[Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour] and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.»

«I can't mate in captivity»

«The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.»

«Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?»

«You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.»

«I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics»