So many women today have become so focused on their children they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

The most successful marriages gay or straight even if they begin in romantic love often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in for example the International Space Station we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization NASA.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical more exciting more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

For behind the scenes halfway around the world in Mexico were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.

If you're lucky as you get older you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity not as a Republican but as an American that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee not because of his color but with indifference to it.

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.

Every once in a while you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core they want more empathic enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

When I approach a child he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

If you have some respect for people as they are you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary profound and alive.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession which I was trying to throw off and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

When state and religion are one religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

The more you get into any religion it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people and how you get out of this 'I me mine' type of thing.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.