I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

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

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true.