The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.