I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.