"In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you"

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out"

"Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself"

"I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!"

"Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control"

"You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison"

"I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison"

"He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy"

"I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that"