“The beast in meIs caged by frail and fragile bars.”

“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”

“You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.”

“Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.”

“In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.”

“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free.”