Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained