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

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.