“I have heard the predictable slew of insults, threats, epithets, and curses. Underneath all these, I hear their fear. They dont want to hurt me, though I may serve as a stand-in for a man who they ...”

“My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint ...”

“The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security ...”

“I look at my students and have no trouble picturing just how successful they should be, if only we could remove them from the impetuses that brought them to the facility. If we could move them away...”

“Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what theyve been told all their li...”

“I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.”

“I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”

“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”

“We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“We speak the truth because we live in truth.”

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”