The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.