He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.