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

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.

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

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.

It is the things that happen, then how you react to them, that gives life some meaning.

It is important to be Intuitive at this time and allow the natural course to show you the way to the next step.

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

I've been a dad since I was nineteen, so I think a lot about fatherhood and the power of that sacrifice in your life.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.