Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.