Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.

-He drives recklessly or speeds up when he’s angry.-He punches walls or kicks doors.-He throws things around, even if they don’t hit you.

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not “cure” partner abuse.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Every solution has a problem.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

I love going out for any audition. I'm very professional, I study my stuff, I work on it, and even if I'm not right for the job, so what? I know I did my best.

I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!