A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.