But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.