A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

Only the home can found a state.

We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

Why would you go out and not drink? Just stay home and sit there.

Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

I ain't never called nobody no redskin. I've never been mad, like, 'Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.'

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.