“Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.”

“Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.”

“Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.”

“If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live through the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.”

“This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.”

“Shane: "Our whole lives are in a mess right now, and I don't know how to fix it."Alyssa: "It'll get better, I promise."Shane: "You can't promise that...”