Ricardo Montalban Quotes

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

People use the 'love' word too early. When you've got that trust thing locked down, when you've lived together, and you know each other's good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner's whims every now and then, and that's a two-way street.

I have a very intense marriage.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.