Nicole Richie Quotes

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.

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

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

I'm going to do the time and I am going to do it the right way

I do think that everybody deserves a second chance.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

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.

My pop did a little time.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'Okay, this is not the move.'

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.

My parole officer always believed in my capacity for redemption, even when my actions did not inspire confidence.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.