If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

We want what you no longer want.

Delivery is about being more efficient, it's about numbers, and it's about extracting costs.

Trump's done nothing but be a great friend of Israel, and yet he's being tagged with anti-Semitism here. It doesn't make any intellectual sense.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.