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I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.