“The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.”
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try tobear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness andresignation that touched the hem of divinity.”
“I am myself. That is not enough.--from "The Jailer", written 17 October 1962”
“Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.”