We're all doing time. The highest compliment in prison is "He knows how to do his own time." How few of us do.

About Bo Lozoff

Portrait of Bo Lozoff

Bo Lozoff (January 10, 1947 – November 29, 2012) was an American writer and interfaith humanitarian. He co-founded several nonprofits, including the interfaith Human Kindness Foundation and its subsidiary Prison-Ashram Project, Carolina Biodiesel, and Kindness House. Many of Lozoff's nonprofits aimed to improve the lives of prisoners and the previously...

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When you have to hide who you really are to the world, you create a shell around yourself over time. A painted on coating of lies. It becomes your shield… and your prison.

—Selena Kitt in Grace

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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

—Andre Malraux

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As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.

—Nelson Mandela

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It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

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My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for twenty-five years, he was released in 1990, and he hasn’t reoffended. I think he’s going straight, which shows you prison does work.

—Ricky Gervais

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