It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man not his history.

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.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Jail didn't make me find God He's always been there. They can lock me up but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

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.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

Most people are prisoners thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present and the present is where everything begins.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.