True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.