Jeffrey Archer Quotes

The lowest point for me was ending up in prison after a violent event. I realised I was way out of my depth.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about you. When you go to jail, you're a story.

Going to jail is beyond what anyone thinks it is.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

I know prisons from the inside.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

First we pin the convict's badge on him: then we examine his case.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'