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When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

I'm not in the business of holding people's hands after I've expressed to them my needs numerous times.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

I've never raised my hand on anyone in my whole life. I feel it's barbaric.