"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby"

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

"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"

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"

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

"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"

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can"

"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press"

"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots"