Call me a rebel, but I don't really give a damn what my mom and dad think, and beyond lip service to my would-be wife, I really don't care what her mom and dad think, either.
I don't believe in the traditional approach. If I ever asked a girl to marry me it would have to be done in an interesting way. Some sort of practical joke, some kind of show. Something that, if not unique, would at least be memorable not just to ourselves.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein