Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!