"Prison for me was a very profound retreat, a very deep experience. I don't want anyone to have to experience what I did, but having gone through it and having come out OK, I can see its other side. It turned my head around, it radically changed my vision of things. It was a very deep encounter with my own self, and therefore with God. Because if you come to know yourself better, you find another who is not yourself, that is in fact your true identity. So prison for me was a journey into my own self."
Frei Betto

"Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy, and I'll show you a Stoic."
Epictetus