A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".
It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
What a force is laughter.
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.