We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.